Elizabeth Eva Leach
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
- Dent Medal (2013)
- Fellow of the British Academy (2016)
- Sung Birds (2007)
- Guillaume de Machaut (2011)
Life and career[edit]
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. Major publications on these topics 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.[3] In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[4] Music historian Alice V. Clark postulated 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]
