Elizabeth Eva Leach

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. She has written extensively on Machaut as well as birdsong and nature in the medieval music.{{cite web |url=https://www.washington.edu/lectures/events/leach_e/ |title=Missing Melodies: What Does a Musicologist Do With a Large Unnotated Medieval Songbook? - Office of Public Lectures |website=washington.edu |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=6 October 2020 }} In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.{{cite web |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/elizabeth-eva-leach-FBA/ |title=Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA | The British Academy |website=thebritishacademy.ac.uk |publisher=The British Academy |access-date=6 October 2020 }}

Leach's major publications include {{harvnb|Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (2007)}} and {{harvnb|Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician (2011)}}, which received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from The Renaissance Society of America.{{cite web |url=https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/april/a-little-knight-music-medieval-songs-tournaments-and-other-forms-of-violence |title=A Little Knight Music: Medieval songs, tournaments and other forms of violence | City, University of London |website=city.ac.uk |publisher=City, University of London |access-date=6 October 2020 }}

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".{{cite encyclopedia |last=Clark |first=Alice V. |year=2012 |encyclopedia=Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies |title=Guillaume de Machaut |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0049 |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0049.xml |url-access=subscription}} {{subscription required}}

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• {{cite book |editor-last=Leach |editor-first=Elizabeth Eva |year=2003 |title=Machaut's Music: New Interpretations |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Suffolk |isbn=978-1-84383-016-0 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=1TDdtAUOvpYC}} |ref=no }}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Leach |editor-first1=Elizabeth Eva |editor-last2=Clark |editor-first2=Suzannah |editor-link2=Suzannah Clark |year=2005 |title=Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Suffolk |isbn=978-1-84383-166-2 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=ejdOK799XnkC}} |editor-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite book |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |year=2007 |title=Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=978-0-8014-4491-3 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=wIRy8lgRUWEC}} |author-mask=2 |ref={{sfnRef|Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (2007)}} }}
• {{cite book |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |year=2011 |title=Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=978-90-5867-876-8 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=lSo5yGVBVvIC}} |author-mask=2 |ref={{sfnRef|Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician (2011)}} }}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Leach |editor-first1=Elizabeth Eva |editor-last2=Deeming |editor-first2=Helen |year=2015 |title=Manuscripts and Medieval Song: Inscription, Performance, Context |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-06263-4 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=_7ksCQAAQBAJ}} |editor-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite book |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |year=2023 |title=Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=978-1-5017-7188-0 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=lunLEAAAQBAJ}} |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}

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;Chapters

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• {{cite book |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |editor-last=Everist |editor-first=Mark |editor-link=Mark Everist |year=2011 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music |chapter=The Fourteenth Century |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-19-316303-4 |ref=no }}
• {{cite book |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |editor-last1=Butterfield |editor-first1=Ardis |editor-link1=Ardis Butterfield |editor-last2=Hope |editor-first2=Henry |editor-last3=Souleau |editor-first3=Pauline |year=2017 |title=Performing Medieval Text |chapter=Performing Manuscripts |publisher=Modern Humanities Research Association |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-78188-379-2 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv16kkz85 |jstor=j.ctv16kkz85 |pages=11–19 |url=http://calenda.org/235290 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}

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;Articles

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• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=Spring 2000 |title=Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song |journal=Journal of Music Theory |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=45–79 |jstor=3090669 |doi=10.2307/3090669 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=October 2000 |title=Interpretation and Counterpoint: The Case of Guillaume de Machaut's 'De toutes flours' (B31) |journal=Music Analysis |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=321–351 |doi=10.1111/1468-2249.00123 |jstor=854458 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=May 2001 |title=Vicars of 'Wannabe': Authenticity and the Spice Girls |journal=Popular Music |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=143–167 |doi=10.1017/S0261143001001386 |jstor=853649 |s2cid=162848598 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=Summer 2002 |title=Death of a Lover and the Birth of the Polyphonic Ballade: Machaut's Notated Ballades 1–5 |journal=The Journal of Musicology |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=461–502 |jstor=10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461 |doi=10.1525/jm.2002.19.3.461 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=May 2005 |title=Learning French by Singing in 14th-Century England |journal=Early Music |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=253–268+270 |doi=10.1093/em/cah069 |jstor=3519451 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=February 2010 |title=Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner: Honte, paour (B25) and Donnez, signeurs (B26) in context |journal=Early Music |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=21–42 |doi=10.1093/em/caq006 |jstor=40731308 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=July 2010 |title=Music and Verbal Meaning: Machaut's Polytextual Songs |journal=Speculum |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=567–591 |doi=10.1017/S0038713410001302 |jstor=27866936 |s2cid=162617845 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=6 January 2021 |title=Ripping romance to ribbons: the French of a German knight in the Tournament at Chauvency |journal=Medium Ævum |publisher=Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=327–349 |doi=10.2307/27089793 |jstor=27089793 |s2cid=254436508 |issn=0025-8385 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite journal |last=Leach |first=Elizabeth Eva |date=24 February 2021 |title=Which Came First, the Demandes d'amours or the Jeu-Parti? Evidence from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308 |journal=Music and Letters |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=102 |issue=1 |pages=1–29 |doi=10.1093/ml/gcaa089 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}

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