Elizabeth Eva Leach

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Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in music of the Middle Ages, especially that of the fourteenth century.[1]

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 music of the Middle Ages. 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 bibliography[]

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.
Chapters
Articles
  • Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Spring 2000). "Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song". Journal of Music Theory. 44 (1): 45–79. doi:10.2307/3090669. JSTOR 3090669.
  • —— (May 2001). "Vicars of 'Wannabe': Authenticity and the Spice Girls". Popular Music. Cambridge University Press. 20 (2): 143–167. JSTOR 853649.
  • —— (May 2005). "Learning French by Singing in 14th-Century England". Early Music. 33 (2): 253–268+270. JSTOR 3519451.
  • Leach, Elizabeth Eva (2010). "Music and Verbal Meaning: Machaut's Polytextual Songs". Speculum. 85 (3): 567–591. doi:10.1017/S0038713410001302. JSTOR 27866936. S2CID 162617845.
  • —— (6 January 2021). "Ripping romance to ribbons: the French of a German knight in the Tournament at Chauvency". Medium Ævum. Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. 89 (2): 327–349. ISSN 0025-8385.
  • —— (24 February 2021). "Which Came First, the Demandes d'amours or the Jeu-Parti? Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308". Music and Letters. Oxford University Press. 102 (1): 1–29. doi:10.1093/ml/gcaa089.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Elizabeth Eva Leach, FBA | Oxford University Faculty of Music". Music.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  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. ^ "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. ^ "Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA | The British Academy". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  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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