Ballot Archive

22 Feb 2024

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Magnus Williamson

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA Hons Music, Magdalen College Oxford 1990 D.Phil. Oxford 1997

Profession or occupation

University professor

Grounds for election

Magnus Williamson is Professor of Early Music at Newcastle University. He specialises in the social and institutional history, sources, liturgical and architectural contexts, material culture and performance practice of pre-Reformation music. His many publications include a 300-page edition of music by John Sheppard (2012) and a facsimile of the Eton Choirbook (winner of the American Musicological Society's 2011 Palisca Prize). He has been General Editor (2008-21) and Chairman (2021-) of the British Academy series, Early English Church Music. His research increasingly draws upon source materials and disciplinary approaches germane to the Society: a current project on Lincoln Cathedral, for instance, draws upon the Willson Collection. He would like to develop his links with the Society in furtherance of current projects: Aural Histories (AHRC, 2022-), Bee-ing Human (Leverhulme Trust, 2022-) and Henry VIII on Tour (AHRC, 2022-).

Signatories

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