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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 **UPDATED MAY 2021**
      • 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

Tag Archives: publishing

Article on Jeux-partis and demandes d’amours now out

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Mar 02 2021January 23, 2022

New Publication: The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music

Long-gestating co-editing project finally published as part of 700-page book.

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Aug 01 2020September 15, 2020

Review of a new collection of essays on Adam de la Halle

This clerihew didn’t make it into my review of this new volume of essays on Adam de la Halle:

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Mar 09 2020July 26, 2020

Imagining the performance of trouvère song

My article treating a ‘boring’ song by Blondel de Nesle has just been published by Early Music.

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Mar 04 2020July 26, 2020

Hey, shepherd, stop your boastful song!

My article on a two-stanza pastourelle in Douce 308 has just appeared in Plainsong and Medieval Music. Here with added sound files!

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Oct 11 2019March 4, 2020

Do trouvère melodies mean anything?

My article on three songs by Blondel de Nesle just appeared in Music Analysis.

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Apr 24 2019October 11, 2019

Resonance in Richard de Fournival

My co-authored article with French literary scholar Jonathan Morton on the sonic aspects of Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love has just appeared in the journal Romania.

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Feb 07 2018January 8, 2021

New Book: Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Deeming Leach coverCopies of my new co-edited book now received!

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May 26 2015September 9, 2015

It might be technology, but a medieval manuscript is not an iPad

Why analogies between medieval and modern technologies should be used with care.

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Feb 04 2013March 11, 2013

A companion to Guillaume de Machaut

Multi-disciplinary volume on Machaut published.

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Oct 01 2012November 14, 2012

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Links

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

Medieval Studies blogs

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  • Trecento (Michael Scott Cuthbert)
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  • medieval song and sundries

Musicology blogs

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

Other academic blogs

  • Renaissance art and music
  • medieval song and sundries

Twitter

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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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Musicology, Medieval to Modern
New Book: Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Machaut manuscripts online **UPDATED MAY 2021**
The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources
Undergraduate applications
About me
Hey, shepherd, stop your boastful song!
The Philosopher's Pony Play
Sources for Cantigas
Vernacular song (list A) 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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