Wilson, Christopher R. 1952–

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Wilson, Christopher R. 1952–

PERSONAL:

Born 1952. Education: Oxford University, M.A., D.Phil.

ADDRESSES:

CAREER:

University of Reading, Reading, England, lecturer and senior lecturer; University of Hull, Hull, England, professor of music history; professional keyboard player, oboist, and music conductor. Music consultant for Globe Theatre music exhibition.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow of Society of Antiquaries.

WRITINGS:

Words and Notes Coupled Lovingly Together: Thomas Campion, A Critical Study, Garland (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor and author of introduction) Thomas Campion, A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint, [and] Giovanni Coprario, Rules How to Compose, Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 2003.

(With Michela Calore) Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary, Thoemmes Continuum (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to books, including A Dictionary of Music, Urdang, 1983; New Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Denis Arnold, Oxford University Press, 1983; William Shakespeare: Life and Works, edited by John F. Andrews, Scribner, 1985; The Music of Howard Ferguson, edited by Alun Ridout, Thames Publishers, 1989; The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance, edited by J. Caldwell, E. Olleson, and S. Wollenberg, Clarendon Press, 1990; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by S. Sadie, Macmillan, 1992; New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by S. Sadie and John Tyrrell, Oxford University Press, 2001; The Oxford Companion to Music, new edition, Clarendon Press, 2002; Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies, Series 2, edited by Bennett Zon, Ashgate, 2002; and Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contributor to journals, including Journal of America, Comparative Literature, Hopkins Quarterly of America, Early Music Performer, Review of English Studies, Music & Letters, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Renaissance Quarterly of America, Journal of the Lute Society, John Donne Journal, and Lute News; also contributor of reviews to journals, including Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, Gramophone Early Music, and Music & Letters. Research associate, Shakespeare Music Catalogue, edited by Bryan Gooch and David Thatcher, Oxford University Press, 1991.

SIDELIGHTS:

Christopher R. Wilson is a music professor who is considered an authority on music of the English Renaissance, particularly of the age of Shakespeare. He has lectured widely on these subjects, often appearing on radio and television programs in the United Kingdom. In addition, Wilson served as a consultant to the famous Globe Theatre for its permanent music exhibition, and he has contributed hundreds of entries to music encyclopedias. In 2005, he published Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary with Michela Calore. A musician himself, as well as conductor, he is not only interested in music but is also well versed in the works of poets of the English Renaissance; and he has researched and written on baroque music and even the British composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September, 2006, J.K. Bracken, review of Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary, p. 76.

Reference & Research Book News, February, 2004, review of A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint, p. 198; February, 2007, review of Music in Shakespeare.

Times Literary Supplement, January 19, 2007, ‘'Twas Crossover,’ p. 18.