Elizabeth Eva Leach Explained
Elizabeth Eva Leach 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.[2] In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[3]
Leach's major publications include and,[2] which received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from The Renaissance Society of America.[4] Music historian Alice V. Clark remarked 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
- Book: Leach . Elizabeth Eva . 2003 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=1TDdtAUOvpYC}} Machaut's Music: New Interpretations ]. . Suffolk . 978-1-84383-016-0 . no .
- Book: Leach . Elizabeth Eva . Clark . Suzannah . Suzannah Clark . 2005 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=ejdOK799XnkC}} Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned ]. . Suffolk . 978-1-84383-166-2 . 2 . no .
- Book: Leach, Elizabeth Eva . 2007 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=wIRy8lgRUWEC}} Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages ]. . Ithaca . 978-0-8014-4491-3 . 2 . .
- Book: Leach, Elizabeth Eva . 2011 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=lSo5yGVBVvIC}} Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician ]. . Ithaca . 978-90-5867-876-8 . 2 . .
- Book: Leach . Elizabeth Eva . Deeming . Helen . 2015 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=_7ksCQAAQBAJ}} Manuscripts and Medieval Song: Inscription, Performance, Context ]. . Cambridge . 978-1-107-06263-4 . 2 . no .
- Book: Leach, Elizabeth Eva . 2023 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=lunLEAAAQBAJ}} Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders ]. . Ithaca . 978-1-5017-7188-0 . 2 . no .
- Chapters
- Book: Leach, Elizabeth Eva . Everist . Mark . Mark Everist . 2011 . The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music . The Fourteenth Century . . Cambridge . 978-0-19-316303-4 . no .
- Book: Leach, Elizabeth Eva . Butterfield . Ardis . Ardis Butterfield . Hope . Henry . Souleau . Pauline . 2017 . Performing Medieval Text . Performing Manuscripts . . Cambridge . 978-1-78188-379-2 . 10.2307/j.ctv16kkz85 . j.ctv16kkz85 . 11–19 . 2 . no .
- Articles
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . Spring 2000 . Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song . . 44 . 1 . 45–79 . 3090669 . 10.2307/3090669 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . October 2000 . Interpretation and Counterpoint: The Case of Guillaume de Machaut's 'De toutes flours' (B31) . . 19 . 3 . 321–351 . 10.1111/1468-2249.00123 . 854458 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . May 2001 . Vicars of 'Wannabe': Authenticity and the Spice Girls . Popular Music . . 20 . 2 . 143–167 . 10.1017/S0261143001001386 . 853649 . 162848598 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . Summer 2002 . Death of a Lover and the Birth of the Polyphonic Ballade: Machaut's Notated Ballades 1–5 . . 19 . 3 . 461–502 . 10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461 . 10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . May 2005 . Learning French by Singing in 14th-Century England . . 33 . 2 . 253–268+270 . 10.1093/em/cah069 . 3519451 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . February 2010 . Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner: Honte, paour (B25) and Donnez, signeurs (B26) in context . . 38 . 1 . 21–42 . 10.1093/em/caq006 . 40731308 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . July 2010 . Music and Verbal Meaning: Machaut's Polytextual Songs . . 85 . 3 . 567–591 . 10.1017/S0038713410001302 . 27866936 . 162617845 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . 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 . 10.2307/27089793 . 27089793 . 254436508 . 0025-8385 . 2 . no .
- Leach . Elizabeth Eva . 24 February 2021 . Which Came First, the Demandes d'amours or the Jeu-Parti? Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308 . . . 102 . 1 . 1–29 . 10.1093/ml/gcaa089 . 2 . no .
Notes and References
- Web site: Elizabeth Eva Leach, FBA | Oxford University Faculty of Music . Music.ox.ac.uk . . 18 February 2018 . 20 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180220033050/https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/about/people/academic-staff/university-lecturers-and-college-fellows/elizabeth-eva-leach/ . dead .
- Web site: Missing Melodies: What Does a Musicologist Do With a Large Unnotated Medieval Songbook? - Office of Public Lectures . washington.edu . . 6 October 2020 .
- Web site: Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA | The British Academy . thebritishacademy.ac.uk . . 6 October 2020 .
- Web site: A Little Knight Music: Medieval songs, tournaments and other forms of violence | City, University of London . city.ac.uk . . 6 October 2020 .
- Encyclopedia: Clark . Alice V. . 2012 . Oxford Bibliographies
Medieval Studies
. Guillaume de Machaut . . Oxford . 10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0049 . subscription.