Faculty Profile

David Heetderks

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology
College
College of Music

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Michigan, 2011. 
Major: Music Theory
Dissertation Title: Transformed Triadic Networks: Hearing Harmonic Closure in Prokofiev, Copland, and Poulenc.





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
MUTH 1350.001, Explorations in Music 2, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    MUTH 5680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 6680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 4910.701, Special Problems, Fall 2023 Syllabus
                    

                    MUGC 6950.703, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2023 
                    

                    MUGC 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    MUTH 1350.001, Explorations in Music 2, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUGC 5930.702, Research Problem in Lieu of Thesis, Spring 2023 
                    

                    MUGC 6950.701, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022 
                    

                    MUTH 1300.001, Explorations in Music I, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 3530.001, Form in 20th  and 21st Century Popular Song, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUGC 5930.703, Research Problem in Lieu of Thesis, Fall 2022 
                    

                    MUTH 4920.702, Advanced Colloquium in Music Theory, Spring 2022 
                    

                    MUTH 5375.001, Analytical Techniques for Popular Music, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUGC 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    MUGC 6950.701, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021 
                    

                    MUTH 3530.001, Form in 20th and 21st Century Popular Song, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 5080.002, Pedagogy of Theory, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 4910.701, Special Problems, Fall 2021 
                    

                    MUTH 5375.001, Analytical Techniques for Popular Music, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUGC 6950.712, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    MUTH 1350.001, Explorations in Music 2, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 5440.001, Music in the United States, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 4910.703, Special Problems, Spring 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUTH 4910.704, Special Problems, Spring 2021 
                    

                    MUGC 6950.729, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    MUTH 3530.001, Form in 20th  and 21st Century Popular Song, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 5080.002, Pedagogy of Theory, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 6900.705, Special Problems, Fall 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUGC 5930.702, Research Problem in Lieu of Thesis, Spring 2020 
                    

                    MUTH 4910.702, Special Problems, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUTH 2400.001, Theory III, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUTH 4520.002, Twentieth Century Techniques, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUTH 3510.001, Form Analysis, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 5080.002, Pedagogy of Theory, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 4920.702, Advanced Colloquium in Music Theory, Spring 2019 
                    

                    MUTH 5680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 6680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 2400.001, Theory III, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 4520.002, Twentieth Century Techniques, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 5370.001, Analytical Techniques III, Fall 2018  SPOT
                    

                    MUTH 3510.001, Form Analysis, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book Chapter
Heetderks, D. J. (2020). "It’s an N, Bro": Teaching Enharmonic Reinterpretations of Fully Diminished Seventh Chords by Ear. The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2019). A Tonal Axis to Grind: Central Dyads and Centric Tension in Sonic Youth's Divergent Textures. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches. 14. Routledge. 
Book Review
Heetderks, D. J. (2023). Review of David Temperley, The Musical Language of Rock (Oxford, 2018). Music Theory Online. 
Heetderks, D.  (2021). Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020). Popular Music. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music
Heetderks, D. J. (2019). Review of Christopher Doll, Hearing Harmony: Towards a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era. Popular Music. 38(1), 165–168. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/hearing-harmony-toward-a-tonal-theory-for-the-rock-era-by-christopher-doll-ann-arbor-mi-university-of-michigan-press-2017-320-pp-isbn-0472073524/62D9F2F5A0135B1A52D524DB7393E912
Heetderks, D. J. (2016). Review of Michael Brocken, The Twenty-first Legacy of The Beatles: Liverpool and Popular Music Heritage Tourism (Ashgate: 2015). NABMSA Reviews. 3(1), 1-2. https://nabmsa.org/pdfs/nabmsa-reviews/NABMSAReviews3.1.pdf
Heetderks, D. J. (2014). Review of S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Music Theory Online. 20(2), . http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.2/mto.14.20.2.heetderks.php
Journal Article
Heetderks, D.  (2023). The “Rebuff Chorus” in 1960–2000 Pop Music. Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. 
Heetderks, D.  (2021). Norms of Textual Scansion and Rhyme in Beatles AABA Forms. Music Theory Spectrum. https://academic.oup.com/mts
Heetderks, D. J. (2020). What Happens after the Primal Burn? Dissonance in Sonic Youth’s Middle Period. Music Theory Online. mtosmt.org
Heetderks, D. J. (2019). Play with Closing Markers: Cadential Multivalence in 1960s Prechoruses and Related Forms. Music Theory Spectrum. Oxford Academic Journals. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2017). Slanted Beats, Enchanted Communities: Pavement’s Early Phrase Rhythm as Indie Narrative. Popular Music. 36(3), 216–232. Cambridge University Press. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2015). From Uncanny to Marvelous: Poulenc's Hexatonic Pole. Theory and Practice. 40, 177–204. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2015). Hipster Harmony: The Hybrid Syntax of Seventh Chords in Post-millennial Rock. Music Theory Online. 27(1), . http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.2/mto.15.21.2.heetderks.html
Heetderks, D. J. (2013). Semitonal Succession-Classes in Prokofiev’s Music and Their Influence on Diatonic Voice-leading Backgrounds in the Op. 94 Scherzo. Intégral. 27, 159–212. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2013). Hardcore Re-visioned: Reading and Misreading in Sonic Youth 1987–8. Music Analysis (Wiley Online Library). 32(3), 363–403. 
Heetderks, D. J. (2011). A Tonal Revolution in Fifths and Semitones: Aaron Copland’s Quiet City. Music Theory Online. 17(2), . http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.2/mto.11.17.2.heetderks.html
Magazine/Trade Publication
Heetderks, D. J. (2016). 12 Hymns, Recast: Review of Kate Eaton, King of Love. 1. https://livingchurch.org/2016/04/21/12-hymns-recast/
Heetderks, D. J. (2015). Rhythms of Catholicism: Review of Stephen Schloesser, Visions of Amen: The Early Life and Music of Olivier Messiaen. https://livingchurch.org/2015/04/21/rhythms-catholicism/



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Grant - Research   
Heetderks, D., "SMT Subvention Grant (declined)," Sponsored by Society for Music Theory, National, $1500 Funded. (May 24, 2019).
Heetderks, D. J., "UNT Small Grant," University of North Texas, $720 Funded. (October 22, 2018).
Heetderks, D. J. (Principal), "Student Research Assistant Grant," Sponsored by Oberlin Research and Development Committee, Oberlin College, Other,  Funded. (February 01, 2016 – May 01, 2016).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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