Jonathan Cross (academic)

Jonathan Guy Evrill Cross, FBA (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.

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 and after appointed of a DLitt and the Professor of musicology in the University of Oxford.

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

Selected publications

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