Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in London)[1] is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel.[2]

He read History and Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1968; PGCE 1969; MA 1971). He completed his PhD at the Open University in 1981. He is vice-president of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and chairman of the Handel Institute.[3]

Awards

Works

  • "Reading the Metre", Musicology and sister disciplines, International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-816734-1
  • Donald Burrows, ed. (1997). The Cambridge companion to Handel. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5.
  • Donald Burrows (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816228-5.

References

  1. ↑ "Library of Congress authorities". Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  2. ↑ OU Department of Music: Professor Donald Burrows
  3. ↑ "'Music & Letters' Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue". Music and Letters. 86 (4): 689. 1 November 2005. doi:10.1093/ml/gci138. Project MUSE 190301.
  4. ↑ "Handelian FAQs". Gfhandel.org. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2010.


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