Elizabeth Eva Leach is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in
medieval music, especially that of the fourteenth century.
Life and career
Leach is a professor of music at
St Hugh's College, Oxford (a
constituent college
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of the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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), where she lectures on the music of
Guillaume de Machaut and the
trouvère
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s.
She has written extensively on Machaut as well as
birdsong
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and nature in the
medieval music. Major publications on these topics include and , which received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from
The Renaissance Society of America
The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) is an academic association founded in 1954 supporting the study of the Renaissance period, 1300–1650. The RSA brings together scholars from many backgrounds in a wide variety of disciplines from North A ...
.
In 2016 she was elected as a
Fellow of the British Academy.
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".
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Living people
Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women musicologists
Machaut scholars