Donald Burrows

Biographic Data

ID3600713
NAMEDonald Burrows
GIVEN NAMESDonald
FAMILY NAMEBurrows
SIGNATUREBURROWS D
AFFILIATIONSThe Open University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
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  • Correcting the ‘grossest faults’: Charles Jennens and the Composition of Handel’s Messiah

    Open AccessDonald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters2023

    The correspondence between Charles Jennens and Edward Holdsworth includes criticisms by Jennens, sometimes trenchant, of Handel’s setting of the text in Messiah. A fresh detailed examination of the musical sources, building on work previously presented in Music & Letters, has revealed more specific evidence for the substance of Jennens’s criticisms. Handel’s performing score of Messiah has a large number of alterations to the verbal text by Jenne…

  • Æsthetics and Politics: Italian Opera as Revealed in the Correspondence of James Harris

    Open AccessDonald BurrowsARTICLERevue LISA / LISA e-journal2022

    La correspondance de James Harris, premier comte de Malmesbury, est une source importante de documents sur la période passée par Haendel à Londres et sur la réception en cet endroit de l’opéra italien au cours du dix-huitième siècle. L’opéra italien est avec le théâtre français le genre de divertissement le plus prisé en Europe. En Angleterre, ce genre en vogue est le théâtre d’affrontements les plus rudes entre compagnies concurrentes. En 1736, …

  • Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece by Jonathan Keates

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEFontes artis musicae2017

    Reviewed by: Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece by Jonathan Keates Donald Burrows Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece. By Jonathan Keates. London: Head of Zeus, 2016. [191 p. ISBN 978-0-784-97400-8. £16.99 (hdk) / £7.99 (e-book)] Of the making many books about Messiah there is no end. (I admit my own participation.) According to the promotional material, this is 'the story of the composition,…

  • Handel, Walsh, and the Publication of ‘Messiah’

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters2016

    The chapter on ‘Printed Editions’ in Watkins Shaw’s A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (1965) gives a summary of the publication of music from Messiah (by John Walsh the younger) during Handel’s lifetime. Shaw concluded that this area of sources did not provide much useful material for his edition, but the history of the early publication (and non-publication) of Messiah remains intriguing. A reassessment of Walsh’s publicat…

  • Mr Harris’s Score’: A New Look at the ‘Mathews’ Manuscript of Handel’s ‘Messiah’

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters2005

    The manuscript score of Handel's Messiah copied by John Mathews, now in the collection of Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin, incorporates musical material derived from early sets of performing partbooks, but also includes references to a score (now lost) that was owned by James Harris of Salisbury, an amateur musician who was an acquaintance of the composer's. From these references it is possible to reconstruct many features of the musical conte…

  • Beyond the Baroque

    Peter Williams, Peter A Williams et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2005

  • Savage, William

    Donald BurrowsCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Whose Companion

    Donald Burrows, Richard DrakefordARTICLEThe Musical Times1998

  • Handel's ‘Messiah’: Supplementary Notes on Sources

    Donald Burrows, Watkins ShawARTICLEMusic and Letters1995

    DONALD BURROWS, WATKINS SHAW; HANDEL'S ‘MESSIAH’: SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON SOURCES, Music and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, 1 August 1995, Pages 356–368, http

  • Which Messiah

    Nicholas Mcgegan, Walkins Shaw et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1992

  • Monument

    Donald Burrows, Handel Handel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1986

  • Handel’s ‘Messiah’: Yet Further Thoughts

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1986

    Journal Article HANDEL’S ‘MESSIAH’: YET FURTHER THOUGHTS Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Arts Faculty, The Open UniversityMilton Keynes MK7 6AA. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 67, Issue 3, July 1986, Page 344, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/67.3.344 Published: 01 July 1986

  • Handel

    Donald Burrows, Handel Handel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1985

  • The Autographs and Early Copies of ‘Messiah’: Some Further Thoughts

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1985

    Journal Article THE AUTOGRAPHS AND EARLY COPIES OF ‘MESSIAH’: SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 1985, Pages 201–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/66.3.201 Published: 01 July 1985

  • To the Editors of ‘Music & Letters’: The Sources of ‘Alexander's Feast’

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1985

    Journal Article To the Editors of ‘Music & Letters’: THE SOURCES OF ‘ALEXANDER'S FEAST’ Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS The Open UniversityMilton Keynes MK7 6AA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 87–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/66.1.87 Published: 01 January 1985

  • The Composition and First Performance of Handel's 'Alexander's Feast

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1983

    Journal Article THE COMPOSITION AND FIRST PERFORMANCE OF HANDEL'S 'ALEXANDER'S FEAST' Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 64, Issue 3-4, July 1983, Pages 206–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/64.3-4.206 Published: 01 July 1983

  • Laudate pueri; Nisi dominus; Salve regina

    Donald Burrows, Handel Handel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1981

  • Messiah

    Donald Burrows, Handel Handel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1980

  • Sources for Oxford Handel Performances in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1980

    Journal Article SOURCES FOR OXFORD HANDEL PERFORMANCES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 1980, Pages 177–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/61.2.177 Published: 01 April 1980

  • Organ and Choral Recitals

    Donald Burrows, Margaret BirleyARTICLEThe Musical Times1978

  • The St John Passion and the Performer

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEThe Musical Times1977

  • Handle and the Foundling Hospital

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1977

    Journal Article HANDLE AND THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 1977, Pages 269–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/58.3.269 Published: 01 July 1977

  • Handel's Performances of ‘Messiah’

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1977

    HANDEL'S PERFORMANCES OF ‘MESSIAH’ Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS 24 Rookery Close, Shippon, Abingdon, Oxon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 121-a–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/58.1.121-a Published: 01 January 1977

  • Handel's Performances of ‘Messiah’: The Evidence of the Conducting Score

    Donald BurrowsARTICLEMusic and Letters1975

    HANDEL'S PERFORMANCES OF ‘MESSIAH’: THE EVIDENCE OF THE CONDUCTING SCORE Get access DONALD BURROWS DONALD BURROWS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume LVI, Issue 3-4, July 1975, Pages 319–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/LVI.3-4.319 Published: 01 July 1975