Donald Burrows (musicologist)

Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945 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

• 2000 Handel Music Prize^[4]

Works

• "Reading the Metre", Musicology and sister disciplines, International Musicological Society. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198167341
• Donald Burrows, ed (1997). The Cambridge companion to Handel. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521456135. http://books.google.com/books?id=RDvqOSFpg18C&pg=PA295&dq=Donald+Burrows+(musicologist)&hl=en&ei=Srl-TMHtOMT7lwf5pIntAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Donald Burrows (2005). Handel and the English Chapel Royal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198162285. http://books.google.com/books?id=4nfmouPTuM4C&pg=PA273&dq=Donald+Burrows+(musicologist)&hl=en&ei=Srl-TMHtOMT7lwf5pIntAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

References

1. ^ "Library of Congress authorities". http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=5877304&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20100915110630&PID=I8VK-loRRzYjwPzk21PBetxvDcKg. Retrieved 2010-08-31. 
2. ^ OU Department of Music: Professor Donald Burrows
3. ^ "Project MUSE - Music and Letters - Authors of Articles in this Issue". Muse.jhu.edu. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/music_and_letters/v086/86.4contributors.html. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 
4. ^ "Handelian FAQs". Gfhandel.org. http://gfhandel.org/faqs.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 

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