Professor Donald Burrows
Publications

• Books
• Principal Music Editions
• Principal Articles and Book Chapters
• Current Projects
• Conference/seminar papers, pre-performance talks etc.
• Contributions to Open University Courses

Books

Handel's 'Messiah' x + 127 pp; ISNB 0-521-37479-0 and 0-521-37437-0. (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
A guide to the composition, performance history and structure of Handel's most famous oratorio. Still available in the 'Cambridge Music Handbooks' series, it has recently also appeared in a Korean edition (Imprima Korean Agency, Seoul, 2006)

A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs (with Martha J. Ronish), xxxix + 332 + 200 pp. ISBN 0-19-315250-9. (Oxford University Press, 1994)
More than 7,500 leaves of Handel's musical autographs survive today, in collections in Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the USA. The catalogue presents a survey of the complete repertory, identifying the musical contents with reference to standard collected editions of Handel's works, and recording the physical characteristics of each leaf: format, rastra (stave-rulings) and watermarks. All of the watermark figures are reproduced, in full size.

Handel, (Oxford University Press), xii + 491 pp. ISBN 0-19-816470-X; paperback edition 0-19-816648-4 (1994, 1996 and 2002).
A comprehensive biography of the composer, in the 'Master Musicians' series, with coverage of Handel's career and of all his major compositions. Appendices include a calendar and a list of works; the book also has genealogical tables of Handel's ancestry and the inter-related ruling dynasties of Hanover, Britain and Prussia.

The Cambridge Companion to Handel (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvi + 349 pp. ISBN 0-521-45425-5; 0-521-45613-4 (pbk).
A collection of essays by authors who have specialist knowledge of Handel's music and the contexts of his career. Part 1 (Background) deals with topics about contemporary musical life in Germany, Italy and London; Parts 2 and 3 cover Handel's music and its performance.

Music and Theatre in the Papers of James Harris and his family, 1732-1780 (with Rosemary Dunhill) (Oxford University Press, 2002.) xliv + 1212 pp., ISBN 0-19-816654-0. The boook provides transcriptions (with commentary) of all of the references to music and theatre during James Harris's lifetime, from the Malmesbury archive. They include several new first-hand descriptions of Handel and his performances, an unrivalled diary of London concert-going, and information about performances in London, Salisbury, Durham, Hertford, Madrid, Berlin and St Petersburg.

Handel and the English Chapel Royal (Oxford University Press, 2005), xxiv + 651 pp.; ISBN 0-19-816228-6.

This is the first full-length study of Handel's English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel's constant but changing relationship with the Hanoverian British royal family, and was affected by political and dynastic events. It also examines the circumstances of Handel's performances, including the buildings which (unlike his theatres) still survive in London today.

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Principal Music Editions

Works by Handel:

Alexander's Feast (Novello, Handel Edition, 1982)

Foundling Hospital Anthem (Edition Peters, 1983)

Complete Violin Sonatas (Edition Peters, 1985-6, 2 vols.)

Messiah (Edition Peters, 1987)

Songs and Cantatas for Soprano and Continuo (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Complete hymns and chorales (Novello, 1988)
Includes Handel's English hymns to words by Charles Wesley, with facisimiles of Handel's autograph, the edition by Samiel Wesley, and the related hymn-settings of J. F. Lampe.

Belshazzar (Novello, Handel Edition, 1993)
The first modern edition of this major oratorio, giving the full music from Handel's original 1745 score and the variants from his 1751 revival.

Suite à deux Clavecins (Edition Breitkopf, 1998)
This engaging 4-movement suite was probably composed by Handel in Hamburg at the early stage of his career. Surviving sources give only the part for Harpsichord I; the music for second harpsichord has been reconstructed by the editor.

Imeneo. Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, Serie II Band 40. pxii + 338 pp. ISMN M-006-49787-4. (Bärenreiter, 2002)
Imeneo was first composed by Handel in 1738, re-drafted in 1739 but not performed until 1740, during the composer's last season of operas in London. The main sources for the opera appear to be very muddled because of the layers of revisions, and further alterations relating to concert performances that Handel gave in Dublin in 1742. This is the first score to present in complete form Handel's four versions of the opera.

Four Coronation Anthems (with Damian Cranmer), (Novello, Handel Edition, 2002.) xi + 123pp. ISBN 0-7119-9589-3. The anthems are also published separately; Donald Burrows is sole editor of Let thy hand be strengthened, Zadok the Priest and My heart is inditing.

Neun Deutsche Arien, (Breitkopf und Härtel, 2003.) 60 + 12 + 27 pp. ISMN M 004 18153 9 Includes commentary in English, and English translations of the German texts.

Samson (Novello Handel Edition, 2005). xxi + 300 pp. ISBN 1-84609-187-X.
The first comprehensive modern edition of one of Handel's greatest oratorios, composed in 1741 as a 'twin' with Messiah. The edition includes all of the music for Handel's original 1743 performing version, and also a guide to his later shorter versions, with variant musical arrangements.

This is the Day (Novello Handel Edition, 2007). xiii + 40 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-84449-084-4
Handel's grand anthem for the wedding of his student Princess Anne with the Prince of Orange in 1734 here receives its first modern edition, based on a survey of all surviving sources.

Works by Edward Elgar:

Salut d'Amour (versions for violin and piano, and piano solo) (Edition Peters, 1995)

Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit (Edition Peters, 1995)

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Principal articles and book chapters since 1996

'Rastra types in Handel's Conducting Scores' in Hans Joachim Marx (ed.) Göttinger Händel-Beiträge VI (1996), pp. 206-235

'A good day's work: composition and revision in the first movement of Handel's organ concerto HWV 308 (Op. 7 No.3) Händel-Jahrbuch Jg.42/43 (1996-7) pp. 141-154

'A "lost" Handel autograph recovered', in Hans Joachim Marx (ed.) Göttinger Händel-Beiträge VII (1998) pp. 81-85

'Handel as a Court musician', The Court Historian, Vol. III no. 2 (July 1998), pp. 2-9

'Some aspects of the influence of Handel's music on the English musician Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg.44 (1998), pp. 148-171

'Charles Burney and Mestastasio', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg.45 (1999), pp. 8-18

'The "Carmelite" Antiphons of Handel and Caldara', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 46 (2000), pp. 33-47

'Rastra, watermarks and copyists in the late insertions in the Conducting Scores of Handel's oratorios', in Hans Joachim Marx (ed.) Göttinger Händel-Beiträge VIII (2000), pp. 181-195

'Handel's 1735 (London) Version of "Athalia" in David Wyn Jones (ed.) Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2000), pp. 193-212 ISBN 1-84014-688-5

'Gottfried van Swieten and London publications of Handel's music', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 47 (2001), pp. 189-202

'What's in a name? Handel's autograph annotations' in Nicole Rostow, Wolfgang Sandberger and Dorothea Schröeder (eds.) "Critica musica": Studien zum 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Metzler, 2001), pp. 25-47 ISBN 3-476-45261-1

'Handel and English Recitative' in Siegfried Schmalzreidt (ed.), Ausdrucksformen der Musik des Barock (Laaber-Verlag, Laaber, 2002) pp. 209-229 ISBN 3-89007-529-0

'Reading the Metre': Verse Forms in Oratorio Librettos written for Handel by Charles Jenners and Thomas Morell' in Andrée-Marie Hermat (ed.), Musique et Littératures: Intertextualités (Anglophonia xi) (Presses Universitaires de Mirail, 2002), pp. 103-107

'Handel in London', Vol. 1, pp. 461-498 (Chapter 12) in Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, Ludwig Finscher, Giselher Schubert (eds.), Europäische Musikgeschichte ( 2 vols.) (Bärenreiter Metzler, Kassel, 2002) ISBN 3-7168-2024-0; 3-476-01909-8

'Handel and the Pianoforte', in Hans Joachim Marx (ed.) Göttinger Händel-Beiträge, IX, (Göttingen 2002) pp. 123-143, ISBN 9 783525 278192

'From Chrysander to 2001: the progress of Handel scholarship' Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 48 (2002), pp. 13-33. ISSN 0440-0992

(with Peter Ward Jones) 'An inventory of mid-eighteenth-century Oxford musical hands', Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 35 (2002), pp. 63-139 ISSN 1472-3808

'Handel, Stuarts and Hanoverians: Handel's English church music and the image of the British monarchy', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 49 (2003) pp. 95-103 ISSN 0440-0992

'Something necessary to the connection: Charles Jenners, James Hunter and Handel's Samson', The Handel Institute Newsletter 15/1 (Spring 2004), pp.1-3 ISSN 0962-7960

'Orchestras in the new cathedral', in Derek Keene, Arthur Burns and Andrew Saint (eds) St. Paul's, The Cathedral Church of London, 1604-2004 (Yale University Press, 2004) pp. 399-402 ISBN 0-300-09276-8

'Musicians and Music Copyists in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Oxford' (with Peter Ward Jones), in Susan Wollenberg and Simon McVeigh (eds.), Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 115-139 ISBN 0-7546-3868-5

'Which style? The performance of the Overture to Messiah', Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 50 (2004), pp. 185-195 ISSN 3-7618-1444-5

'Handel and the London opera companies in the 1730s: venues, programmes, patronage and performers', in Hans Joachim Marx (ed) Göttinger Händel-Beiträge X, (Göttingen, 2004), pp. 149-165. ISBN 3-525-27821-7

'Handel's 1736 Performances of Ariodante', in Patrizia Radicchi and Michael Burden (eds.), Florilegium Musicae: Studi in onore di Carolyn Gianturco (Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2004), pp. 429-446. ISBN 88-467-1125-4

'Thomas Baker's Word-Book for Samson', Newsletter of the American Handel Society Vol. XIX No. 3 (December 2004), p. 6

'Aesthetics and Politics: Italian Opera as revealed in the Correspondence of James Harris', La Revue LISA/LISA e-journal (www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/anglais/lisa), Vol. 2 No. 3 (2004), pp. 1-18; ISSN 1762-6153

Handel and the English Chapel Royal: concert programme conducted for the American Handel Festival at the Episcopal Cathedral of St John, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, with the Cathedral choir and Santa Fe Pro Musica

'German Chorales and English Hymns: the work of three Germans in London (Jacobi, Lampe and Handel), Händel-Jahrbuch Jg. 51 (2005), pp. 235-251; ISBN 3-7618-1445-3; ISSN 0440-0992

'The word-books for Handel's Samson', The Musical Times, Spring 2005, pp. 7-15; ISSN 0027 4666

(with William Weber) ‘Henry Purcell and The Universal Journal: The Building of Musical Canon in the 1720s’, in Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey (eds.), Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, 2005), pp. 181-199; ISBN 1-57806-762-6

‘From Milton to Handel: the Transformation of Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso into a Musical Work for Performance in the London Theatres’, in Claire Bardelmann and Pierre Degott (eds.), Musique et théâtricalité dans les îsles Brittaniques (Centre d’Étude des Textes et Traductions, Université Paul Verlaine – Metz, 2005), pp. 73-89, ISBN 2-9517096-6-8 – EAN 9782951709669

‘“Mr Harris’s Score’: A New Look at the “Mathews” Manuscript of Handel’s “Messiah”’, Music & Letters, Vol. 86 No. 4 (November 2005), pp. 560-572. ISSN 0027-4224

‘Handel and the English Chapel Royal’, Royal College of Organists Yearbook 2004-5 (Royal College of Organists, 2005), pp. 54-8, ISBN 0-902462-15-6

‘Two connections completed’, The Handel Institute Newsletter, Vol. 16 No. 2 (Autumn 2005), pp. 9-11; also concert review pp. 8-9. ISSN 0962-7960

‘The trail of the Samson word-books’, Newsletter of The American Handel Society, Vol. XX No. 2 (December 2005), pp. 00-00. ISSN 0888/8701

‘Two more musical autographs by Handel’, Göttinger Händel-Beiträge XI (2006), pp. 41-62. ISBN 3-525-27822-5

‘Handel, Walsh, Sonatas and Concertos in the early 1730s’ The Handel Institute Newsletter, Vol. 17 No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 1-3; also ‘The Dublin Imeneo’ (opera review) pp.8-9 ISSN 0962-7960

‘Handel’s use of soloists in Samson: characterisation versus practical necessity’, Handel-Jahrbuch, 52. Jg (2006), pp. 37-47. ISSN 0440-0992

‘More than just an editor’, in Richard Lyne (ed.), Reminiscence and Recollection [memoirs of Watkins Shaw, 1911-1996], pp. 36-38, Church Music Society, 2006

‘Perhaps Handel was right after all: some thoughts on editing Ariodante’, The Musical Times, Vol. 148 No. 1898 (Spring 2007), pp. 35-48 ISBN 0027 4666

'Did Handel perform a Pergolesi aria?', The Handel Institute Newsletter, Vol 18 No 1 (Spring 2007) pp. 1-3; also 'Alfred Mann' (obituary) pp. 8-9. ISSB 0962-7960

'Making the "classic" accessible: Vincent Novello's vocal scores of Handel's oratorios', Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg. 53 (2007).pp. 103-128 ISSN 0440-0992

'Singing the Hallelujah Chorus, still', The Handel Institute Newsletter, Vol 18 No 2 (Autumn 2007), pp. 4-6; also 'The Handel Documents Project'm pp. 7-8. ISSN 0962-7960

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Current Projects

'Handel Documents', a 3-year research project, which commenced in September 2007. This project is surveying and transcribing all known documents relating to Handel from the composer's lifetime, in preparation for a comprehensive publication.

Music edition of William Croft, Complete orchestrally-accompanied Canticles and Anthems (Musica Britannica, Stainer and Bell).

Music editions of Handel's opera Ariodante (Hallische Händel-Ausgabe) and the Ode [Song] for St Cecilia's Day (Novello Handel Edition).

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Conference/seminar papers, pre-performance talks etc.

'Highly visible yet tantalisingly elusive: John Walsh, entrepreneurial tradesman and Handel's music publisher'. Music and the Book Trade, Foundling Museum, London, 2 December 2007.

'Commemorating a Commemoration: the Royal Music Library', Handel Institute Conference 'Commemorating Handel', Foundling Museum, 24 November 2007.

'What we know - and what we don't know - about Handel's career in Rome', Conference Georg Friedrich Händel a Roma, Deutsches Historiches Insitut, Rome, 18 October 2007.

'Handel's Coronation Anthems and Foundling Hospital Anthem: the context in Handel's London' pre-performance lecture, Wantage Choral Society, 30 June 2007.

'Difficulties with getting started: the composition of three arias in Handel's Ariodante', Wissenschaftliche Konferenz zu den Händel-Festspielen 2007, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 5 June 2007.

'Handel's Imeneo: a difficult birth', Study Afternoon on Handel's Imeneo, The Handel Institute/University of Cambridge, University Music School, Cambridge, 5 May 2007.

'Fidelity to the text: the composition of an aria in Handel's Ariodante', Invention and Convention: the limits of text and performance, a symposium in honour of Wye J. Allanbrook and John H. Roberts, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 28 April 2007.

'How to end? Recitative cadences in Handel's English oratorios of the 1740s: the evidence for Samson', American Handel Society Conference, University of Princeton, USA, 20 April 2007.

'What the Malmesbury archive tells us about Handel', Händelhaus exkursion lectures, Greywell Hill and Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, 30 March 2007.

'Handel at Cannons', Händelhaus exkursion recital and lecture, St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch and North London Collegiate School, 27 March 2007.

'Perhaps Handel was right after all: thoughts on editing Ariodante', University of Manchester seminar series, 22 February 2007.

'Handel's Agrippina', pre-performance talk for Friends of the English National Opera, London Colliseum, 2 February 2007.

Contribution to 'Handel's Semele', Real History of Opera series, BBC RAdio 4, 21/254 November 2006.

'Handel, Messiah and the Foundling Hospital', pre-performance talk, Portsmouth Handel Festival, St John's Roman Catholic Church, Portsmouth.

'Singers, Voices and Props: How do we "do" Handel Opera'. Panel member for University of London School of Advanced Study Debates Series, Goodenough College, London, 22 October 2006.

'Making the "Classic" accessible: Vincent Novello's vocal scores of Handel's oratorios', Wissenschaftliche Konferenz 'Händels Klassizität', University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 12 June 2006

Contrubutor to programme on Handel's Messiah, BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show, 11 December 2005

'Handel, the British Court and the Chapel Royal', University of Hamburg, 8 December 2005

'Musical Notation and its Role in Handel's Performances', Handel Institute Conference: ‘Performing Handel – Then and Now’, The Foundling Museum, London, 26 November 2005

'Handel, Dublin and Imeneo', Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin Institute of Technology, 22 November 2005

Contribution to broadcast: Programme on Handel's Messiah, BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show, November 2005

Note for concert programme: Handel: Alexander's Feast, The Bach Sinfonia, Washington D.C., 29 October 2005

‘Handel's Giulio Cesare': pre-performance talk, BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, 23 August 2005

'Handel's use of soloists in his Samson: characterisation versus practical necessity', Wissenschaftliche Konferenz 'Biblishce gestalten bei Händel', University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany, 7 June 2005

'From composition to modern edition', pre-performance talk for Handel's Samson, London Handel Festival, St George's Church, Hanover Square, 11 May 2005

'Messiah in Handel's London', Handel House Museum, London, 6 March 2005

'Music and Number', joint lecture with Robin Wilson, Handel House Museum, London, 14 November 2004

Contribution to 'Tales from the Stave: 3/3 Handel's Jephtha' BBC Radio 4, 18 May 2004

'Handel and the British Court', pre-performance concert talk, University of Portsmouth, St. Luke's Church, Portsmouth, 12 May 2004

'Handel and the English Chapel Royal', contributor to study day for London Handel Festival/ Royal College of Organists, St. George's Church, Hanover Square, 4 May 2004 (included lecture and conducting one item in the evening concert).

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Contributions to Open University Courses

Donald Burrows has been Chair of the second-level course Understanding Music (A214) since its introduction in 1994. As well as contributing as an author to that course, he has written for the Arts Foundation Course (A102), Beethoven (A314), Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 (A205); for the third-level music courses From Composition to Performance (AA302) and Studies in Music 1750-2000 (AA341) which are currently in presentation; courses A870 and A871 in the taught Music MA programme; and for the courses From Enlightenment to Romanticism (A207; study units on Mozart's Don Giovanni) and The Technology of Music (TA225) which commenced in 2004. He is the presenter of two DVD sequences for A214, (originally made as BBC programmes) and of a DVD/video sequence on the history of music printing for TA225. He also composed the songs for the broadcast performance of T.S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes for the course Literature in the Modern World (A319), and an unaccompanied choral work, Cecilia's Choir, for the Open University Choir in 1998.

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