Elizabeth Eva Leach
Born
Elizabeth Eva Leach

United Kingdom
Awards
Academic background
EducationMagdalen College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil)
Doctoral advisorMargaret Bent
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval music
Institutions
Notable works
  • Sung Birds (2007)
  • Guillaume de Machaut (2011)

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.

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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