DAVID BRETHERTON
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | DAVID BRETHERTON |
| GIVEN NAMES | DAVID |
| FAMILY NAME | BRETHERTON |
| SIGNATURE | BRETHERTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Interview with Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (born in London on 17 March 1946) is one of our foremost living composers of art music. He is also gay, but his sexual orientation is just one aspect of his character, and he resists being reduced to the label ‘gay composer’. This long-form interview explores his life, works, and career, examining aspects of his ‘queer’ identity, the impact that this may have had on his career, his queer artistic influences, and questions of lega…
Explaining harmonic inter-annotator disagreement using Hugo Riemann's theory of ‘harmonic function’
Harmonic transcriptions by ear rely heavily on subjective perceptions, which can lead to disagreement between annotators. The current computational metrics employed to measure annotator disagreement are useful for determining similarity on a pitch-class level, but are agnostic to the functional properties of chords. In contrast, music theories like Hugo Riemann's theory of ‘harmonic function’ acknowledge the similarity between chords currently un…
The Musico-Poetics of the Flat Submediant in Schubert's Songs
Composers' increasing and increasingly evocative use of chromatic mediants during the first few decades of the nineteenth century is arguably a hallmark of early Romantic harmony. The apparent association in Schubert's songs between ♭VI and the representation of utopia, fantasy, reverie, dreams and other positive, other-worldly states has been noted by many scholars. However, the fact that he also occasionally employed ♭VI to portray darker senti…
Schenker, Cube and Schubert's ‘Der Doppelgänger’
Schubert's ‘Der Doppelgänger’ is among the composer's most‐analysed works. Yet, in spite of numerous published Schenkerian readings, Schenker's own analytical sketches of the song remain largely neglected. His work on ‘Der Doppelgänger’ was prompted by a letter from Felix‐Eberhard von Cube of 8 May 1932, which enclosed a voice‐leading analysis. Although this analysis does not survive, the broad outline of Cube's reading can be reconstructed from …
The Shadow of Midnight in Schubert's 'Gondelfahrer' Settings
Eduard von Bauernfeld's poem 'Ein Wiener Censor' attests to Johann Mayrhofer's belief in freedom, nationhood, and equality, and confirms that dangerously radical politics were a topic of conversation among Franz Schubert's circle. Susan Youens suggests that Mayrhofer's poem 'Es tanzen Mond und Sterne' has a politically subversive subtext concerning the suppression of Carbonari radicals in Austrian-controlled Venice, and so reflects his radical po…
The Shadow of Midnight in Schubert's 'Gondelfahrer' Settings
Eduard von Bauernfeld's poem 'Ein Wiener Censor' attests to Johann Mayrhofer's belief in freedom, nationhood, and equality, and confirms that dangerously radical politics were a topic of conversation among Franz Schubert's circle. Susan Youens suggests that Mayrhofer's poem 'Es tanzen Mond und Sterne' has a politically subversive subtext concerning the suppression of Carbonari radicals in Austrian-controlled Venice, and so reflects his radical po…
The Shadow of Midnight in Schubert's 'Gondelfahrer' Settings
Eduard von Bauernfeld's poem 'Ein Wiener Censor' attests to Johann Mayrhofer's belief in freedom, nationhood, and equality, and confirms that dangerously radical politics were a topic of conversation among Franz Schubert's circle. Susan Youens suggests that Mayrhofer's poem 'Es tanzen Mond und Sterne' has a politically subversive subtext concerning the suppression of Carbonari radicals in Austrian-controlled Venice, and so reflects his radical po…
Schenker, Cube and Schubert's ‘Der Doppelgänger’
Schubert's ‘Der Doppelgänger’ is among the composer's most‐analysed works. Yet, in spite of numerous published Schenkerian readings, Schenker's own analytical sketches of the song remain largely neglected. His work on ‘Der Doppelgänger’ was prompted by a letter from Felix‐Eberhard von Cube of 8 May 1932, which enclosed a voice‐leading analysis. Although this analysis does not survive, the broad outline of Cube's reading can be reconstructed from …
The Musico-Poetics of the Flat Submediant in Schubert's Songs
Composers' increasing and increasingly evocative use of chromatic mediants during the first few decades of the nineteenth century is arguably a hallmark of early Romantic harmony. The apparent association in Schubert's songs between ♭VI and the representation of utopia, fantasy, reverie, dreams and other positive, other-worldly states has been noted by many scholars. However, the fact that he also occasionally employed ♭VI to portray darker senti…
Explaining harmonic inter-annotator disagreement using Hugo Riemann's theory of ‘harmonic function’
Harmonic transcriptions by ear rely heavily on subjective perceptions, which can lead to disagreement between annotators. The current computational metrics employed to measure annotator disagreement are useful for determining similarity on a pitch-class level, but are agnostic to the functional properties of chords. In contrast, music theories like Hugo Riemann's theory of ‘harmonic function’ acknowledge the similarity between chords currently un…
An Interview with Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (born in London on 17 March 1946) is one of our foremost living composers of art music. He is also gay, but his sexual orientation is just one aspect of his character, and he resists being reduced to the label ‘gay composer’. This long-form interview explores his life, works, and career, examining aspects of his ‘queer’ identity, the impact that this may have had on his career, his queer artistic influences, and questions of lega…
Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Physics (2 works)