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 from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Arts in musicology and later graduated with a Magister of Arts from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of London. After he worked in the University of Sussex and the University of Bristol. He joined Christ Church, Oxford as in 2003, later being awarded a DLitt. He is also Professor of musicology at 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
US edition: (editor)
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