Elizabeth Eva Leach
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| Born | Elizabeth Eva Leach
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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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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.
Leach is a professor of music at St Hugh's College, Oxford (aconstituent 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]
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