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Elizabeth Eva Leach

Musicology, medieval to modern

  • About me
  • Publications
    • Books
      • Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician
      • Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages
      • Citation in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned
      • Machaut’s Music: New Interpretations
    • Articles and book chapters
      • Reading and Theorizing Medieval Music Theory
      • The Fourteenth Century
      • Music and Verbal Meaning
      • Guillaume de Machaut, Royal Almoner
      • Machaut’s Peer, Thomas Paien
      • Nature’s Forge and Mechanical Production
      • Mourning, Machaut, Music, and Renown in the Chantilly Codex
      • Machaut, the Ars Subtilior and the Cyprus Balades
      • Gendering the Semitone, Sexing the Leading Tone
      • Sirens in the Middle Ages
      • Learning French from Singing
      • Machaut’s Notated Balades 1-5
      • Authenticity and the Spice Girls
      • Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song
      • Fortune’s Demesne
  • Undergraduate applications
  • Graduate study and postdoc mentoring
  • Teaching resources
    • Machaut (Prelims Special Topics) lectures
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 1
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 2
        • Machaut manuscripts online
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 3
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 4
        • Learn to read 14thC French music notation
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 5
        • The dart of love: an analysis of Machaut’s rondeau no.5
      • Machaut (Prelims) Lecture 6
    • List A: Vernacular Song
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 1
        • The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
      • Vernacular Song (list A) lecture 2
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 3
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 4
        • German medieval song manuscripts online
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 5
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 6
    • Manuscript sources for the thirteenth-century motet
  • Blog
    • Blog caveat
      • 2011 in review
      • 2012 in review
      • 2013 in review
      • 2014 in review
      • 2015 in review
    • Do trouvère melodies mean anything?
    • A concordance for an early fourteenth-century motet
    • Another Machaut patron?
    • ‘Grafting the Rose’
    • A companion to Guillaume de Machaut
    • A collegial colloquy?
    • A medieval music blog recommendation
    • A medievalist at the inaugural Music and Philosophy Study Group of the RMA conference
    • A review of medieval music CDs
    • An analysis of Machaut’s B18
    • At the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference 2015
    • Blogging about talking about blogging
    • DIAMM and DIAMM Publications
    • DIAMM publications honoured in AMS Palisca Award
    • Douce 308 complete images now online!
    • Early music and web 2.0 (with links to full text)
    • Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text)
    • Free score of a Machaut virelai
    • Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame
    • Grammar in the medieval song-school
    • Guillaume de Machaut wins award from the Renaissance Society of America
    • Guillaume de Machaut’s legacy in the Chantilly Codex
    • Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner (contains links to full text of article)
    • Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician on Radio 3
    • Hey, shepherd, stop your boastful song!
    • Imagining the performance of trouvère song
    • It might be technology, but a medieval manuscript is not an iPad
    • Leach en France, Leach en français
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 1
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 2
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 3
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 4
    • Medieval song and subjectivity
    • Money speaks louder than knowledge in the thirteenth-century university
    • More on music and sex
    • Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review
    • Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text)
    • Music in the fourteenth century: a short general overview (contains link to full text)
    • My perfect research library*
    • New Book: Manuscripts and Medieval Song
    • New Publication: The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
    • One of Douce 308’s grands chants
    • Open-access links to full content (includes link to my review of Kirkman’s book on the Cyclic Mass)
    • Opera in Chatwin’s Utz
    • Order form for discounted copies of my book on Guillaume de Machaut
    • Performance Workshop 1: JP27a
    • Performance Workshop 2: JP4
    • Performance workshop 3: JP30
    • Performance workshop for late-medieval song
    • Performing jeux-partis with graindelavoix
    • Publishing a scholarly book
    • Putting a tune to a tuneless song
    • Recent Trends in the Study of Music of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries
    • Refrains in odd places
    • Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love
    • Sorting out the works of Gautier d’Espinal
    • Sources for Cantigas
    • The composer Grimace
    • The composer P. des Molins
    • The Medieval Song Network (includes text of my 2005 ‘Learning French by Singing’ article)
    • The Philosopher’s Pony Play
    • The singer is an ass
    • The Sound of Beauty: Darwin Lecture 2011
    • The source materials for large medieval chansonniers
    • The Tournament at Chauvency
    • The unquiet thoughts of Spenser, Gaffurius, and Dowland: recusancy and reconciliation in Elizabethan England
    • The vows of the peacock
    • Thibaut’s Romance of the Pear
    • Zoltán Rihmer answers some of my questions about Machaut
  • academic life
  • Adam de la Halle
  • blog reports
  • blog-only publications
  • Blondel de Nesle
  • conference reports
  • digital humanities
  • Douce 308 project
  • Elizabethan England
  • gender
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • medieval composers
  • medieval French literature
  • medieval motets
  • medieval music theory
  • medieval singers
  • Modern novels
  • music analysis
  • public talks
  • publications
  • queer studies
  • speculative musicology
  • Teaching materials

Tag: counterpoint

An analysis of Machaut’s B18

My chapter presenting an analysis of Guillaume de Machaut’s balade, De petit po (B18), has just been published (partial access via Google Books). Continue reading “An analysis of Machaut’s B18”

Author Elizabeth Eva LeachPosted on November 22, 2011June 21, 2019Categories gender, Guillaume de Machaut, medieval composers, publicationsTags counterpoint, feminine voice, medieval song, music analysisLeave a comment on An analysis of Machaut’s B18

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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


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The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
Machaut manuscripts online
Musicology, Medieval to Modern
About me
Machaut (Prelims) lecture 1
Machaut (Prelims Special Topics) lectures
Teaching resources
Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame
Publications
Graduate study and postdoc mentoring
  • About me
  • Publications
    • Books
      • Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician
      • Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages
      • Citation in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned
      • Machaut’s Music: New Interpretations
    • Articles and book chapters
      • Reading and Theorizing Medieval Music Theory
      • The Fourteenth Century
      • Music and Verbal Meaning
      • Guillaume de Machaut, Royal Almoner
      • Machaut’s Peer, Thomas Paien
      • Nature’s Forge and Mechanical Production
      • Mourning, Machaut, Music, and Renown in the Chantilly Codex
      • Machaut, the Ars Subtilior and the Cyprus Balades
      • Gendering the Semitone, Sexing the Leading Tone
      • Sirens in the Middle Ages
      • Learning French from Singing
      • Machaut’s Notated Balades 1-5
      • Authenticity and the Spice Girls
      • Counterpoint and Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Song
      • Fortune’s Demesne
  • Undergraduate applications
  • Graduate study and postdoc mentoring
  • Teaching resources
    • Machaut (Prelims Special Topics) lectures
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 1
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 2
        • Machaut manuscripts online
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 3
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 4
        • Learn to read 14thC French music notation
      • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 5
        • The dart of love: an analysis of Machaut’s rondeau no.5
      • Machaut (Prelims) Lecture 6
    • List A: Vernacular Song
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 1
        • The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
      • Vernacular Song (list A) lecture 2
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 3
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 4
        • German medieval song manuscripts online
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 5
      • Vernacular song (list A) lecture 6
    • Manuscript sources for the thirteenth-century motet
  • Blog
    • Blog caveat
      • 2011 in review
      • 2012 in review
      • 2013 in review
      • 2014 in review
      • 2015 in review
    • Do trouvère melodies mean anything?
    • A concordance for an early fourteenth-century motet
    • Another Machaut patron?
    • ‘Grafting the Rose’
    • A companion to Guillaume de Machaut
    • A collegial colloquy?
    • A medieval music blog recommendation
    • A medievalist at the inaugural Music and Philosophy Study Group of the RMA conference
    • A review of medieval music CDs
    • An analysis of Machaut’s B18
    • At the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference 2015
    • Blogging about talking about blogging
    • DIAMM and DIAMM Publications
    • DIAMM publications honoured in AMS Palisca Award
    • Douce 308 complete images now online!
    • Early music and web 2.0 (with links to full text)
    • Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text)
    • Free score of a Machaut virelai
    • Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame
    • Grammar in the medieval song-school
    • Guillaume de Machaut wins award from the Renaissance Society of America
    • Guillaume de Machaut’s legacy in the Chantilly Codex
    • Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner (contains links to full text of article)
    • Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician on Radio 3
    • Hey, shepherd, stop your boastful song!
    • Imagining the performance of trouvère song
    • It might be technology, but a medieval manuscript is not an iPad
    • Leach en France, Leach en français
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 1
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 2
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 3
    • Machaut (Prelims) lecture 4
    • Medieval song and subjectivity
    • Money speaks louder than knowledge in the thirteenth-century university
    • More on music and sex
    • Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review
    • Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text)
    • Music in the fourteenth century: a short general overview (contains link to full text)
    • My perfect research library*
    • New Book: Manuscripts and Medieval Song
    • New Publication: The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
    • One of Douce 308’s grands chants
    • Open-access links to full content (includes link to my review of Kirkman’s book on the Cyclic Mass)
    • Opera in Chatwin’s Utz
    • Order form for discounted copies of my book on Guillaume de Machaut
    • Performance Workshop 1: JP27a
    • Performance Workshop 2: JP4
    • Performance workshop 3: JP30
    • Performance workshop for late-medieval song
    • Performing jeux-partis with graindelavoix
    • Publishing a scholarly book
    • Putting a tune to a tuneless song
    • Recent Trends in the Study of Music of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries
    • Refrains in odd places
    • Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love
    • Sorting out the works of Gautier d’Espinal
    • Sources for Cantigas
    • The composer Grimace
    • The composer P. des Molins
    • The Medieval Song Network (includes text of my 2005 ‘Learning French by Singing’ article)
    • The Philosopher’s Pony Play
    • The singer is an ass
    • The Sound of Beauty: Darwin Lecture 2011
    • The source materials for large medieval chansonniers
    • The Tournament at Chauvency
    • The unquiet thoughts of Spenser, Gaffurius, and Dowland: recusancy and reconciliation in Elizabethan England
    • The vows of the peacock
    • Thibaut’s Romance of the Pear
    • Zoltán Rihmer answers some of my questions about Machaut
  • academic life
  • Adam de la Halle
  • blog reports
  • blog-only publications
  • Blondel de Nesle
  • conference reports
  • digital humanities
  • Douce 308 project
  • Elizabethan England
  • gender
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • medieval composers
  • medieval French literature
  • medieval motets
  • medieval music theory
  • medieval singers
  • Modern novels
  • music analysis
  • public talks
  • publications
  • queer studies
  • speculative musicology
  • Teaching materials
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