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Musicology, medieval to modern

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Author Archives: Elizabeth Eva Leach

My perfect research library*

Or, why I can’t work in reference libraries.

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Jan 20 2011July 29, 2011

The composer P. des Molins

Updated version of the English draft for my 2005 MGG entry on P. des Molins.

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Jan 03 2011July 29, 2011

The composer Grimace

Updated English version of 2002 dictionary entry on Grimace.

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Dec 29 2010July 29, 2011

Publishing a scholarly book

How publishing a monograph can take much longer than anticipated. **Updated Jan 2011**

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Dec 23 2010July 29, 2011

DIAMM and DIAMM Publications

A great resource for early music.

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Dec 22 2010July 29, 2011

Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text)


Opening of Machaut’s De triste/Quant/Certes (B29)

A paper showing that the music’s functional, contrapuntal aspect can significantly inflect the meaning of the texts that it delivers.

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Aug 11 2010July 29, 2011

Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner (contains links to full text of article)

Detail from a fourteenth-century alms purse. Source: http://www.cottesimple.com/alms_purse/cloisters_purse.htm

A paper outlining Machaut’s early career in royal service suggests that his function as an almoner had a distinct influence on his conception of generosity.

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Jun 01 2010July 29, 2011

Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text)

Pythagoras in the forge (left) from GKS 80 2º: Speculum humanae salvationis, 47 verso Speculum humanae salvationis [The Mirror of Human Salvation], Germany, 1400-1450
Paper on distributed cognition and medieval song is published in a volume edited by Mary Carruthers

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May 23 2010August 3, 2012

Guillaume de Machaut’s legacy in the Chantilly Codex

Cordier’s Belle, bonne, sage (detail) from the Chantilly Codex. Source: http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/chantilly.html

Conference paper from 2001 finally makes it into print!

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May 18 2010July 29, 2011

‘Grafting the Rose’


Photo of Neustift/Novacella from the North by Adrian Michael. Source: http://bit.ly/cNMJWZ

Conference paper from 2000 finally makes it into print!

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May 17 2010September 8, 2020

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Recent Posts

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  • Thoughts on music in Colette’s ‘Pussy’ January 1, 2023
  • My first Early Music editorial November 28, 2022
  • The tournament of Antechrist April 19, 2022
  • A potential patron for Douce 308? April 15, 2022

Links

  • The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
  • DIAMM
  • International Machaut Society

Medieval Studies blogs

  • medieval song and sundries
  • Medieval Motet (Catherine A. Bradley)
  • ars musicae
  • Jason Stoessel
  • Manuscript Egerton 1500 (Catherine Léglu)
  • Multimodal Machaut (Kate Maxwell)
  • Trecento (Michael Scott Cuthbert)
  • Musicology in the Making (Henry Hope)

Musicology blogs

  • Musicology in the Making (Henry Hope)
  • Early Music
  • medieval song and sundries
  • Note Against Note (Melanie Marshall)
  • Luís C. F. Henriques
  • Medieval Motet (Catherine A. Bradley)
  • Early Modern English Music (Katherine Butler)
  • Jason Stoessel
  • Trecento (Michael Scott Cuthbert)
  • ars musicae

Other academic blogs

  • Renaissance art and music
  • medieval song and sundries

Twitter

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Contact details

Elizabeth Eva Leach
Prof. Elizabeth Eva Leach
Faculty of Music
St Aldate's
Oxford OX1 1DB
Great Britain
Email: Elizabeth Eva Leach



College Appointments

Tutorial Fellow in Music
St Hugh’s College, Oxford

Stipendiary Lecturer in Music
Exeter College, Oxford


Most viewed

Vernacular song (list A) lecture 1
Vernacular song (list A) lecture 6
Musicology, Medieval to Modern
Vernacular song (list A) lecture 5
Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame
Music and verbal meaning: Machaut's polytextual songs (contains links to full text)
Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages
Vernacular song (list A) lecture 3
The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
Machaut (Prelims) Lecture 6
CONTACT INFORMATION
Prof. Elizabeth Eva Leach
Faculty of Music
St Aldate's
Oxford OX1 1DB
Great Britain
Email: Elizabeth Eva Leach

COLLEGE APPOINTMENTS
Tutorial Fellow in Music
St Hugh’s College, Oxford
Stipendiary Lecturer in Music
Exeter College, Oxford

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