Selected Publications, Projects, and Awards
William Lyons has been an active researcher/performer for over twenty years. He has produced transcriptions and performing editions for numerous performance and recording projects for his own and other ensembles. He has written scholarly articles, written and presented for radio and presented papers at major conferences on theatre and historical performance.
William is a Leverhulme Research Fellow.
Shakespeare: Music & Performance
Book Chapter on Theatre Music & Musicians 1575-1642
Cambridge University Press [2017] in association with Dr David Lindley and the research department at the Globe Theatre
Forthcoming: 2017
"The Topping Tooters of the Town"
The City Musick: Research, transcription, performing editions
Forthcoming: 2017
Revisions of Wait and Türmusik entries in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Forthcoming: 2017
BBC Radio 3 The Early Music Show
Programme about the influence the work of David Munrow on the next generation of early music specialists
William Lyons, author and presenter
2017
LEVERHULME RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD
For research on the music and musicians of London theatres in 1560-1640
2014-2016
"Excellent and Expert Musitians – who played for the plays 1560-1642?"
Paper presented at the Conference on Historical Performance and Interdisciplinary at Jacobs School of Music, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2016
Silver Sounds & Moody Food – music and musicians in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Curator and Convener of Day Conference for York Early Music Festival 2016
"I have set my hert so hy: Love & Devotion in Medieval England"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions, composer
2015
‘The Topping Tooters of the Town – a History of the Waits’
BBC Radio Four documentary, author and presenter
2013
The City Musick: Waits Study Day
Conference at The Museum of London [LCASE funded]
Curator and Key-note Speaker
2010
"Performing early music at Shakespeare's Globe," in Shakespeare's Globe – A Theatrical Experiment
Chapter co-written by Claire van Kampen, William Lyons and Keith McGowan
Carson & Karim-Cooper, CUP
2008
"In the Mix: How the Dufay Collective Teamed Up With the Masters of Traditional Arab Music to Rediscover a Unique Fusion of East and West"
Article for the The Guardian
2008
"The Play of Daniel"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions, composer
2007
Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives
Specialist Interviewee
2005
"Flower of Cities All: Music in Renaissance London"
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble: Research, transcription, performing editions
2005
"Music for Alfonso: 13c Spanish court music"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions
2004
"Cancionero: Music from 15c Spain"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions
2002
"Music for the Duke of Lerma"
The Gabrieli Consort: Research, transcription, performing editions
2001
"Miracles: Music for The Virgin Mary from Medieval Spain"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions
1997
"Johnny Cock Thy Beaver: Popular Music Making in England 1550-1650"
The Dufay Collective: Research, transcription, performing editions
1995