Elizabeth Eva Leach

Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in music of the Middle Ages, especially that of the fourteenth century.[1] She 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] Her extensive writings on birdsong and nature as well as Machaut 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]

Selected bibliography

Books
  • Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3.
  • Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-90-5867-876-8.
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