Books by Elizabeth Eva Leach

First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.

Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.

Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound...