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Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2025. Composing community: Peter Maxwell Davies's operas for children. Presented at: RMA 61st Annual Conference, Southampton, UK, 12 September 2025.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2025. Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphonic Imagination. Presented at: Music Research Seminar Series, Maynooth University, Ireland [online], 4 December 2024.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2025. Peter Maxwell Davies: Three Early Pieces for Piano [musical score edition and preface]. Edition Schott (ED 14242).

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2024. Argraffiadau Cymraeg: Exploring Welsh identity in the music of three ‘Cardiff Group’ composers. Presented at: North American British Music Studies Association Conference 2024, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Ohio, USA, 25–29 July 2024.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2024. Art Music and 'Welshness': Perspectives from Cardiff. Presented at: 5th Silpakorn Conference on Sound and Music 2024 (SICSAM), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand, 7-8 June 2024.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2023. The symphony in Britain and Ireland since 1900: A critical history - the editor’s perspective. Presented at: NABMSA Colloquium Series - North American British Music Studies Association, Online, 27 November 2023.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2023. ‘The rain soaked sky is leaden’: Welsh identity and dystopian impulses in The Doctor of Myddfai. Cambridge Opera Journal 35 (1) , pp. 75-105. 10.1017/S0954586723000046

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2023. The role of the child in Peter Maxwell Davies's The Doctor of Myddfai: Characterisation and Agency. Presented at: Research Colloquia, KU Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 20 March 2023.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2022. Composing Cymru: Art music since 1940. Herbert, Trevor, Clarke, Martin V. and Barlow, Helen, eds. Cambridge History of Welsh Music, Cambridge University Press, pp. 264-290. (10.1017/9781009036511.015)

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2022. Art music and Welsh identity. Presented at: 58th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, Durham, UK, 8-10 September 2022.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2022. ‘The northern night-fire calls us to our sleep’: Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Hogboon and the Dynamics of Late Style. Presented at: Music Since 1900 Twelfth Biennial International Conference, Birmingham Conservatoire, 17-20 June 2022.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2021. Incantations: early chamber works of Peter Maxwell Davies. Performed at Unmasking Max: Peter Maxwell Davies Study Day [School of Music, Cardiff University, 4 December 2021].

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2021. Composing Cymru: Welsh identity and British art music since 1945. Presented at: John Bird Research Lectures 2021-22, School of Music, Cardiff University, 13 October 2021.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2021. Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Doctor of Myddfai: Using the sketches and other primary source material to unveil the creative process. Presented at: Peter Maxwell Davies Research Network Friday Forum, Online, 12 November 2021.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2020. Landscape and place. Jones, Nicholas and McGregor, Richard, eds. The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 251-302. (10.1017/9781787446823.008)

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 and McGregor, Richard 2020. The music of Peter Maxwell Davies. Boydell & Brewer.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2020. Manchester Resonances: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Juvenilia. Presented at: 2020 North American British Music Studies Association Conference, Illinois State University [virtual conference], 21–26 July 2020.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2019. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: the man and the music. [Online]. themaxtrust.org: The Peter Maxwell Davies Trust. Available at: https://www.themaxtrust.org/about.html

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2018. ‘Death’s dark door stands open’: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Tenth Symphony. Presented at: 54th Annual Conference of the Royal Musicians Assocation, Bristol, UK, 13-15 September 2018.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2018. 'For the Islands I sing': composing the Orkney landscape. Presented at: New Perspectives on the Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, 12 May 2018.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2017. 'Max the Mighty carved these runes': editing the writings of Peter Maxwell Davies. Presented at: Kenneth Gloag In Memoriam One Day Public Symposium, Chamber Recital and Jazz Concert, School of Music, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 2 December 2017.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114, ed. 2017. Peter Maxwell Davies, selected writings. Music since 1900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781316662519

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2017. British classical music, landscape and a sense of place. Presented at: AWEN [Arts-Whitchurch-Eglwys-Newydd] Public Lecture, Whitchurch, Cardiff, UK, 13 June 2017.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 and Warnaby, John 2016. Davies, Peter Maxwell. Oxford Music Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

Beard, David Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3892-843X, Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114, eds. 2015. Harrison Birtwistle studies. Cambridge Composer Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2015. The sound of Raasay: Birtwistle's Hebridean experience. Beard, David, Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas, eds. Harrison Birtwistle Studies, Cambridge Composer Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 175-205. (10.1017/CBO9781316145326.008)

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2015. Das Land ohne Musik? British classical music, from Elgar to the Cultural Olympiad. Presented at: Exploring the Past Lecture Series, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 20 May 2015.

Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114, eds. 2013. The Cambridge companion to Michael Tippett. Cambridge Companions to Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2013. Formal archetypes, revered masters and singing nightingales: Tippett’s string quartets. The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 206-228.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2013. Embedding assessment into course design: a view from Lifelong Learning. Presented at: UALL Annual Conference: Who and What are Universities For?, Durham University, UK, 20-22 March 2013.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2012. Being British: Issues of national identity in classical music, from Edward Elgar to Peter Maxwell Davies. Presented at: Creative Minds Festival of Ideas, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 13 November 2012.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2012. Interlacings: Reflections on issues of autobiography in two works of Peter Maxwell Davies. Presented at: New Music in Britain, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, 10-12 May 2012.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2011. György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages. Compiled & ed. by Bálint András Varga. [Book review]. Music & Letters 92 (2) , pp. 330-332. 10.1093/ml/gcr014

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2010. Peter Maxwell Davies in the 1950s: a conversation with the composer. Tempo 64 (254) , pp. 11-19. 10.1017/S0040298210000380

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2010. Northcott Bayan, The Way We Listen Now and Other Writings on Music, ed. Wintle Christopher (London: Plumbago, 2009) [Book Review]. Twentieth-Century Music 7 (2) , pp. 267-270. 10.1017/S1478572211000223

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 and McGregor, Richard 2010. Peter Maxwell Davies's Opus and WoO Numbers: A New Work List. Musical Times 151 , pp. 53-86.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2010. Review: Second chance. Havergal Brian on music, volume two: European and American music in his time, edited by Malcolm MacDonald [Book Review]. Musical Times 151 (1911) , pp. 118-120.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2010. Review: Managing modernism 2. Reviewed work: Musical modernism at the turn of the twenty-first century by David Metzer [Book review]. The Musical Times 151 (1912) , pp. 109-112.

Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114, eds. 2009. Peter Maxwell Davies Studies. Cambridge Composer Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2009. The music of Hugh Wood. By Edward Venn. [Book review]. Music and Letters 90 (3) , pp. 514-516. 10.1093/ml/gcp016

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2009. Review: Law & Order. Serialism by Arnold Whittall. Musical Times 150 (1906) , pp. 100-103.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2009. The writings of a young British composer: Peter Maxwell Davies in the 1950s. Peter Maxwell Davies Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-44.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2009. Peter Maxwell Davies's articles, lectures, interviews and radio broadcasts. Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas, eds. Peter Maxwell Davies Studies, Cambridge Composer Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 231-241.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2008. Seaside music: The Beach Boys and The Who [Chapter in Book 4 of AA100 The Arts Past and Present]. The Open University.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2008. Madonna as pop diva [Chapter in Book 1 of AA100 The Arts Past and Present]. The Open University.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2007. 'The End' by The Doors [Chapter in Block 5 of A179 Start Listening to Music]. The Open University.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2007. Review: Dumbing up. The way of music: aural training for the Internet generation by Robin Maconie [Book review]. Musical Times 148 (1901) , pp. 111-114. 10.2307/25434506

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2007. Review: Existential Elgar. Edward Elgar, Modernist by JPE Harper-Scott [Book review]. Musical Times 148 (1899) , pp. 81-88. 10.2307/25434460

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2006. "Disparagement and Invidious Comparisons": assessing critical reactions to Mathias's First Symphony. Tempo 60 (238) , pp. 8-14. 10.1017/S0040298206000283

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2005. The music of Peter Maxwell Davies: An introduction. Presented at: Cardiff Recorded Music Society Lecture Series, Cardiff, UK, 30 November 2005.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2005. 'Playing the Great Game'? Peter Maxwell Davies, Sonata form, and the Naxos Quartet no. 1. Musical Times 146 , pp. 71-81. 10.2307/30044107

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2004. Ranging over the forest: a conversation with Anthony Powers. Tempo 58 (228) , pp. 23-31. 10.1017/S0040298204000117

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2004. Peter Maxwell Davies and sonata form. Presented at: Peter Maxwell Davies One-Day Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK, 16 October 2004.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2003. Anthony Powers at 50: Luminous, but with shadows. Musical Times 144 (1884) , pp. 26-35. 10.2307/3650698

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2002. Review: All Set. Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe by MJ Grant [Book Review]. Musical Times 143 (1879) , pp. 78-79. 10.2307/1004607

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2002. Dominant Logic: Peter Maxwell Davies's basic unifying hypothesis. The Musical Times 143 (1878) , pp. 37-45. 10.2307/1004421

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2002. Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies edited by R. McGregor [Book Review]. Music and Letters 83 (1) , pp. 147-151. 10.1093/ml/83.1.147

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2000. Peter Maxwell Davies's 'submerged cathedral': architectural principles in the Third Symphony. Music & Letters 81 (3) , pp. 402-432. 10.1093/ml/81.3.402

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2000. Towards the Symphonic odyssey: Maxwell Davies's Works for Orchestra 1958-73. [Online]. Maxopus.com. Available at: http://www.maxopus.com/resources_detail.aspx?key=6...

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2000. Mathias's String Quartet No.1. Something to shout about. The Musical Times 141 (1872) , pp. 24-32. 10.2307/1004395

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 2000. Architectural perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony. Presented at: Peter Maxwell Davies Conference, St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK, 1-2 April 2000.

Jones, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7098-6114 1998. 'Preliminary workings': The precompositional process in Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony. Tempo 204 , pp. 14-22.