Biography
Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA is a Tutorial Fellow in Music at St Hugh’s College, Professor of Music at The Faculty of Music, Oxford University and a Lecturer at Exeter College. She is a musicologist and music theorist whose research focuses on medieval music and poetry, especially of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Her work explores musical structures, manuscripts and their wider cultural contexts.
Teaching
Professor Leach typically lectures on the music of the Trouvères and other medieval topics. At undergraduate level, she teaches all periods of music history, tonal and pre-tonal music analysis, and related issues in critical musicology. Professor Leach also supervises DPhil students working on medieval song.
Research interests
Musicologist and music theorist. Research interests in songs, counterpoint, and singing, with a particular focus on medieval secular lyrics in French. Other interests include music and philosophy, ideas of musical meaning, music analysis (especially of pre-tonal repertoires), music and gender, and music in literature.
Professor Leach is also a Fellow of the British Academy. For enquiries about working with Professor Leach at postgraduate and postdoctoral level, please see the details here.
For the most up-to-date information, please see Professor Leach’s blog and personal website here.
