David Forrest

David Forrest teaches graduate and undergraduate music theory courses, supervises the undergraduate music theory sequence, and serves as Music Liaison for the Honors College. Dr. Forrest holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts with a concentration in Music Theory, an M.M. in Choral Conducting, and a B.M. in Music Education, all from Texas Tech. He has presented research across Europe and the United States, predominantly on popular music, music theory pedagogy, and the music of Benjamin Britten. Dr. Forrest’s work has been published in several journals including Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Journal of Mathematics and Music, and College Music Symposium. Dr. Forrest has served as President of the Texas Society for Music Theory and President of the Board for the West Texas Children’s Chorus.

A partial list of publications is given below.

Books

Forrest, David, Quinn Patrick Ankrum, Stacey Jocoy, and Emily Ahrens Yates, eds. 2017. Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book Chapters

Forrest, David. 2021. “Kate Bush’s Uncanny Harmonic Language,” in Routledge Handbook on Women’s Work in Music, edited by Rhiannon Mathias. New York: Routledge.

Forrest, David. 2017. “Britten and the Supernatural,” in Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium, edited by David Forrest, et. al., 183-208. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Articles

Sears, David and David Forrest. 2021. “Triadic patterns across classical and popular music corpora: Stylistic conventions, or characteristic idioms?” Journal of Mathematics and Music, 15(2), 140-153.

Forrest, David. 2017. “PL Voice Leading and the Uncanny in Pop Music,” Music Theory Online, 23.4.

Forrest, David and Matthew Santa. 2014. “A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures,”College Music Symposium Vol. 54, August 7.

Forrest, David. 2010. “Prolongation in the Choral Music of Benjamin Britten,” Music Theory Spectrum 32(1), 1-25.

Forrest, David, Severine Neff, and John Reef. 2011-present. “American Music Theory (1955-2010),” entry for Oxford Bibliography Online. Annotated bibliography from Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

Forrest, David, Jennifer Beavers, Kevin Clifton, David Sears, and Ann Stutes. 2021. Review of The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy edited by Leigh VanHandel, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, vol. 35.

Forrest, David. Fall 2017. Review of My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears edited by Vicki P. Stroeher, Nicholas Clark, and Jude Brimmer, NABMSA Reviews, vol. 4 no. 2.