Elizabeth Eva Leach
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Elizabeth Eva Leach | |
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Born | Elizabeth Eva Leach United Kingdom |
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Education | DPhil) |
Doctoral advisor | Margaret Bent |
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Discipline | Medieval music |
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Elizabeth Eva Leach 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
Fellow of the British Academy.[3]
Leach's major publications include
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
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva, ed. (2003). Machaut's Music: New Interpretations. Suffolk: ISBN 978-1-84383-016-0.
- ——; ISBN 978-1-84383-166-2.
- —— (2007). Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3.
- —— (2011). Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician. Ithaca: ISBN 978-90-5867-876-8.
- ——; Deeming, Helen, eds. (2015). Manuscripts and Medieval Song: Inscription, Performance, Context. Cambridge: ISBN 978-1-107-06263-4.
- —— (2023). Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders. Ithaca: ISBN 978-1-5017-7188-0.
- Chapters
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva (2011). "The Fourteenth Century". In ISBN 978-0-19-316303-4.
- —— (2017). "Performing Manuscripts". In JSTOR j.ctv16kkz85.
- Articles
- Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Spring 2000). "Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song". JSTOR 3090669.
- —— (October 2000). "Interpretation and Counterpoint: The Case of Guillaume de Machaut's 'De toutes flours' (B31)". JSTOR 854458.
- —— (May 2001). "Vicars of 'Wannabe': Authenticity and the Spice Girls". Popular Music. 20 (2). S2CID 162848598.
- —— (Summer 2002). "Death of a Lover and the Birth of the Polyphonic Ballade: Machaut's Notated Ballades 1–5". JSTOR 10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461.
- —— (May 2005). "Learning French by Singing in 14th-Century England". JSTOR 3519451.
- —— (February 2010). "Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner: Honte, paour (B25) and Donnez, signeurs (B26) in context". JSTOR 40731308.
- —— (July 2010). "Music and Verbal Meaning: Machaut's Polytextual Songs". 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. S2CID 254436508.
- —— (24 February 2021). "Which Came First, the Demandes d'amours or the Jeu-Parti? Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308". .
References
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- . (subscription required)
External links
- 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