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Elizabeth Eva Leach

Elizabeth Eva Leach

British musicologist and music theorist

Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in medieval music, especially that of the fourteenth century.[1] Much of her scholarship concerns the life and work of Guillaume de Machaut.

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Life and career

Leach is a professor of music at St Hugh's College, Oxford (a constituent college of the University of Oxford), where she lectures on the music of Guillaume de Machaut and the trouvères.[1] She has written extensively on Machaut as well as birdsong and nature in the medieval music. Major publications on these topics include Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (2007) and Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician (2011),[2] which received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from The Renaissance Society of America.[3] In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[4] Music historian Alice V. Clark postulated that Leach's Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician will become will "likely become the standard monograph study of Machaut’s life and works".[5]

Selected publications

Books
  • Leach, Elizabeth Eva, ed. (2003). Machaut's Music: New Interpretations. Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-016-0.
  • ——; Clark, Suzannah, eds. (2005). Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned. Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-166-2.
  • —— (2007). Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3.
  • —— (2011). Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-90-5867-876-8.
  • ——; Deeming, Helen, eds. (2015). Manuscripts and Medieval Song: Inscription, Performance, Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-06263-4.
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References

  1. [1]
    "Elizabeth Eva Leach, FBA | Oxford University Faculty of Music". Music.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Missing Melodies: What Does a Musicologist Do With a Large Unnotated Medieval Songbook? - Office of Public Lectures". washington.edu. University of Washington. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. [3]
    "A Little Knight Music: Medieval songs, tournaments and other forms of violence | City, University of London". city.ac.uk. City, University of London. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA | The British Academy". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. [5]
    Clark, Alice V. (2012). "Guillaume de Machaut". Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0049. (subscription required)
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