Jonathan Cross (academic) explained

Jonathan Guy Evrill Cross
Birth Date:	4 December 1961
Citizenship:	United Kingdom
Workplaces:	University of Bristol University of Sussex Christ Church, Oxford
Alma Mater:	University of Bristol University of Oxford University of London

Jonathan Guy Evrill Cross, FBA^[1] (born 4 December 1961) 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.^[2]

Cross graduated in the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts in musicology and later graduated with a Magister of Arts in the University of Oxford and a PhD in the University of London. After he worked in the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol. He joined in the Christ Church, Oxford in 2003^[3] and after appointed of a DLitt and the Professor of musicology in the University of Oxford.^[2]

Currently Cross is the Editor of the journal Music Analysis, Associate Editor of Grove Music Online^[3] and a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Musical Research.^[4] His book The Stravinsky Legacy David H. Smyth called 'an ambitious undertaking'.^[5]

Selected publications

• Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=tIh8JVOGuDMC}} The Stravinsky Legacy ]. . 1998 . 978-0-521-56365-9 . Illustrated . Cambridge . en . Music in the Twentieth Century . 8 .
• Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=tYkQBQAAQBAJ}} Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music ]. . 2014 . 978-0-571-31780-6 . Second . London . en-uk .
  • US edition: Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=2ESs5bbzfEcC}} Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music ]. . 2000 . 978-0-801-48672-2 . Ithaka, N. Y. . en-us . Cornell Paperbacks.
• Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=GaOiJOIGypgC}} The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky ]. Cambridge University Press . 2003 . 978-0-521-66377-9 . Cambridge . en . Cambridge Companions to Music. (editor)
• Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=YCcxDwAAQBAJ}} Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus ]. . 2017 . 978-1-351-56412-0 . Second . Milton Park, Oxfordshire . en .
• Book: [{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=lYakCwAAQBAJ}} Igor Stravinsky ]. . 2015 . 978-1-780-23540-0 . London . en . Critical Lives.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Jonathan Cross FBA . 28 February 2024 . British Academy.
2. Web site: Professor Jonathan Cross, FBA . 28 February 2024 . Faculty of Music, University of Oxford.
3. Web site: Professor Jonathan Cross . 28 February 2024 . Christ Church, Oxford.
4. Web site: Advisory Council Membership . 28 February 2024 . Institute of Musical Research.
5. The Stravinsky Legacy By Jonathan Cross Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 xii, 282 pp. . . Smyth . David H. . 1 . 44 . 231–236 . . 10.2307/3090674.