Elizabeth Eva Leach is a British musicologist and music theorist who specializes in medieval music, especially that of the fourteenth century. Much of her scholarship concerns the life and work of Guillaume de Machaut.
Life and career
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. Major publications on these topics include and , which received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from The Renaissance Society of America. 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) British musicologists British women musicologists Machaut scholars