Dr David Bretherton
Associate Professor
Dr David Bretherton is an Associate Professor in Music at the University of Southampton and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow.
My teaching areas are primarily 19th-century music, music analysis, harmony and counterpoint, and digital humanities. In Semester 1, 2019-20 I will be teaching the UG module 'Fundamentals of Analysis, Counterpoint and Harmony' (MUSI1007) and the MMus module 'Analytical Techniques' (MUSI6023). I will be on research leave in Semester 2.
I am currently the holder of a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellowship for a project entitled 'Queer Music, Queer Theory, Queer Music Theory'. Other research interests include nineteenth-century song, the music of Franz Schubert, tonal music theory and digital musicology. I supervise a number of doctoral students, and am always happy to hear from potential PhD applicants.
I came to Southampton as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2007, working on several music e-research projects (that is, research employing digital technologies), including musicSpace, MusicNet and SALAMI, before working with Prof. William Drabkin on the 'Heinrich Schenker as Theorist, Teacher and Correspondent, 1925-1930' project. Prior to that I was a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, where my thesis was supervised by Suzannah Clark. I was a founding Trustee for the charitably incorporated Society for Music Analysis, and am currently a member of the Music Analysis Editorial Board.