Jonathan Cross (academic)

Jonathan Guy Evrill Cross
Born (1961-12-04) December 4, 1961 (age 63)
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
University of Oxford
University of London
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
University of Sussex
Christ Church, Oxford

Jonathan Guy Evrill Cross, FBA[1] (born 4 December 1961),[2] is a British musicologist who specialises in the 20th- and 21st-century music. He is an expert on the work of the British composer Harrison Birtwistle and the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.[3]

Cross graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts in musicology and later graduated with a Magister of Arts from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of London. After he worked in the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol. He joined in Christ Church, Oxford in 2003[4] and after appointed of a DLitt and the Professor of musicology in the University of Oxford.[3]

Currently Cross is the editor of the journal Music Analysis, associate editor of Grove Music Online[4] and a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Musical Research.[5] His book The Stravinsky Legacy David H. Smyth called 'an ambitious undertaking'.[6]

Selected publications

  • The Stravinsky Legacy. Music in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-521-56365-9.
  • Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music (Second ed.). London: Faber and Faber. 2014. ISBN 978-0-571-31780-6.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-66377-9. (editor)
  • Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus (Second ed.). Milton Park, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1-351-56412-0.
  • Igor Stravinsky. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-780-23540-0.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Jonathan Cross FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  2. ^ VIAF 49380691
  3. ^ a b "Professor Jonathan Cross, FBA". Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Jonathan Cross". Christ Church, Oxford. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Advisory Council Membership". Institute of Musical Research. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  6. ^ Smyth, David H. "Book Review: [The Stravinsky Legacy By Jonathan Cross Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 xii, 282 pp.]". Journal of Music Theory. 44 (1). Duke University Press: 231–236. doi:10.2307/3090674.


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