Staff Profile

I read music as an undergraduate at New College, Oxford, where I was awarded the Gibbs Prize in Music, and completed an MPhil in Music at King's College, Cambridge, winning the William Barclay Squire Essay Prize. I returned to New College for my AHRC-funded doctoral work, on the reception of the music of G. F. Handel during the American Revolution. I joined the department at Newcastle as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow in 2023.

Qualifications

BA (Oxon); MPhil (Cantab); DPhil (Oxon)

I am a historical musicologist with research interests in the eighteenth century and the broader early modern period. I am especially interested in the relationship between music, politics, society, religion and culture during this period.

Current Research

My current work explores the changing ways Handel's music was performed and thought about in the years after his death beyond Britain, in locations including Italy, the Caribbean, Austria and India. As well as performances, criticism, arrangements and translations of Handelian material, I also consider other composers' creative responses to Handel's music.

• Book Chapters

  • Lockwood J. Who Should Have Won the Prize Musick?. In: Charles Edward McGuire, ed. European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. In Preparation.
  • Lockwood J. Beyond Europe: North America. In: Coffey H; Landgraf A, ed. Handel in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. In Press.
  • Lockwood J. Philip Astley and the Amphitheatre. In: Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp, ed. With a Grace Not to Be Captured: Representing the Georgian Theatrical Dancer, 1760-1830. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.

• Reviews

  • Lockwood J. Review of: Berta Joncus, Kitty Clive; or, The Fair Songster, and Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland, Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons . Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2023, 35, 114–121.
  • Lockwood J. Review of: Isaac Bickerstaff and Edward Toms, Love in a Village: A Comic Opera, ed. Berta Joncus with Zak Ozmo and Vanessa L Rogers. Music and Letters 2022, 103(2), 356-359.
  • Lockwood J. Report: American Handel Society Conference, Indiana University, 11-14 March 2021. Eighteenth-Century Music 2022, 19(1), 94-97.
  • Lockwood J. Review of: Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel, ed. Colin Timms and Bruce Wood. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2021, 33(1-2).
  • Lockwood J. Review of: Thomas Arne, Juith: An Oratorio, ed. Simon McVeigh and Peter Lynan. Eighteenth-Century Music 2018, 15(1).
  • Lockwood J. Review of Exhibition and book: Staging History 1780–1840, ed. Michael Burden et al. The Bodleian Library Record 2016, 29(2), 118-123.
  • Lockwood J. Review of The Lively Arts of the London Stage, ed. Kathryn Lowerre. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 2013, 28(2), 125-128.

• Scholarly Edition

  • Lockwood J. Music sections in: The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, 5 vols. (gen. ed. Stephen Bernard). 2017. London: Pickering & Chatto.