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.
Elizabeth Eva Leach | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Eva Leach United Kingdom |
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| Education | Magdalen College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) |
| Doctoral advisor | Margaret Bent |
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| Discipline | Medieval music |
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Life and career
editLeach 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 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.[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
edit- 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.
- —— (2023). Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-7188-0.
- Chapters
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva (2011). "The Fourteenth Century". In Everist, Mark (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-316303-4.
- —— (2017). "Performing Manuscripts". In Butterfield, Ardis; Hope, Henry; Souleau, Pauline (eds.). Performing Medieval Text. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. pp. 11–19. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz85. ISBN 978-1-78188-379-2. JSTOR j.ctv16kkz85.
- 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.
- —— (October 2000). "Interpretation and Counterpoint: The Case of Guillaume de Machaut's 'De toutes flours' (B31)". Music Analysis. 19 (3): 321–351. doi:10.1111/1468-2249.00123. JSTOR 854458.
- —— (May 2001). "Vicars of 'Wannabe': Authenticity and the Spice Girls". Popular Music. 20 (2). Cambridge University Press: 143–167. doi:10.1017/S0261143001001386. JSTOR 853649. S2CID 162848598.
- —— (Summer 2002). "Death of a Lover and the Birth of the Polyphonic Ballade: Machaut's Notated Ballades 1–5". The Journal of Musicology. 19 (3): 461–502. doi:10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461. JSTOR 10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461.
- —— (May 2005). "Learning French by Singing in 14th-Century England". Early Music. 33 (2): 253–268+270. doi:10.1093/em/cah069. JSTOR 3519451.
- —— (February 2010). "Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner: Honte, paour (B25) and Donnez, signeurs (B26) in context". Early Music. 38 (1): 21–42. doi:10.1093/em/caq006. JSTOR 40731308.
- —— (July 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. 89 (2). Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature: 327–349. doi:10.2307/27089793. ISSN 0025-8385. JSTOR 27089793. S2CID 254436508.
- —— (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. 102 (1). Oxford University Press: 1–29. doi:10.1093/ml/gcaa089.
References
edit- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA | The British Academy". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Clark, Alice V. (2012). "Guillaume de Machaut". Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0049. (subscription required)
External links
edit- Official website
- List of publications by Elizabeth Eva Leach at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Elizabeth Eva Leach publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Elizabeth Eva Leach publications on Academia.edu
