Donald Burrows (musicologist) explained

Donald James Burrows (born 28 December 1945, in London)^[1] is a musicologist and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel. Until his retirement, he was Professor of Music at the Open University. ^[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 Prize^[4]

Works

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Library of Congress authorities. 2010-08-31.
2. http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/dburrows.shtml OU Department of Music: Professor Donald Burrows
3. ‘Music & Letters’ Awards and Authors of Articles in This Issue . Music and Letters . 1 November 2005 . 86 . 4 . 689 . . 10.1093/ml/gci138 .
4. Web site: Handelian FAQs . Gfhandel.org . 2010-09-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090321090807/http://gfhandel.org/faqs.htm . 21 March 2009 .