Andrew Barker (classicist)
Andrew Barker | |
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| Born | Andrew Dennison Barker 24 April 1943 |
| Died | 22 July 2021 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | British |
| Children | Five |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Christ's Hospital |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | musical theory |
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Andrew Dennison Barker,
Early life and education
Barker was born on 24 April 1943. He was educated at
Academic career
Barker's early specialism was
In 1970, Barker joined the Philosophy Department of the
Wanting to move from a philosophy specialist to a
Personal life
Barker was first married to Susan Margaret Hough; their marriage was dissolved in 1976. Together they had two sons. In 1978, he married Jill Davida Newman. Together they had three children: one daughter and two sons.[1]
Barker died on 22 July 2021, at the age of 78.[4][5]
Honours
In 2005, Barker was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3] He gave the inaugural Martin West Memorial Lecture at the University of Oxford in March 2017; his lecture was titled "Migrating musical myths: the case of Euripides and the Libyan lotos".[6]
Selected works
- Barker, Andrew, ed. (1984). Greek Musical Writings: Volume 1, The Musician and His Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521389112.
- Barker, Andrew, ed. (1989). Greek Musical Writings: Volume 2, Harmonic and Acoustic Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521616973.
- Barker, Andrew (2000). Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521553728.
- Barker, Andrew (2007). The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1139468626.
- Barker, Andrew (2014). Ancient Greek Writers on Their Musical Past: Studies in Greek Musical Historiography. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore. ISBN 978-8862276894.
- Barker, Andrew (2015). Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107003859.
References
- ^ Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 16 Oct 2017
- ^ a b c d e f g "Professor Andrew Barker BA, PhD, FBA". Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Professor Andrew Barker". The British Academy. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ "Professor Andrew Barker". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ In Memoriam: Professor Andrew Barker
- ^ "Martin West Memorial Lecture". Faculty of Classics. University of Oxford. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
