Guillaume de Machaut

Chapter One: Composer Biography “My composer is Guillaume De Machaut. People believe that he was born around the year 1300 but yet they don’t know what day he was born on. He died on April 13, 1377. He was both born and died in Reims, France. Very little is know for Guillaume but he was employed by John of Luxembourg, who was the king of Bohemia. He was named canon (a canon is someone that can play two or more instruments of something) of Verdun in 1330, Arras in 1332, and Reims in 1337. We

Did you know that Guillaume de Machaut was both a French poet and Musician? While not commonly known, his poetry is known for its puns, vivid imagery and encryptions. In the realm of music, Machaut influenced the forms fixes of the virelai, rondeau, ballade and inspired poets and composers of this time to write for this genre. Machaut is also known for the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary as a coherent cycle. (Evans 2013) A major catalyst of the time, Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame” features

Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet that was prevalent in the 14th century and is known for being one of founders of the Ars Nova musical style. The Ars Nova musical style is characterized as being the integration of complex rhythms and polyphony of secular music, and its genre is translated into ‘New Art.’ Overall this type of music is known for the advancements made toward rhythmic notation, which was greatly criticized at the time by the church. Furthermore, Gullaume de Machaut

Music Guillaume de Machaut: Rose, liz, printemps, verdure (mid 14th cent) The inclusion of a piece by Machaut in a film set in Charles VI court is very fitting as Machaut was supposedly close with Charles V of France, the father of Charles VI, during his time as the canon of the Rheims Cathedral (Gothic Voices). Machaut was also one of the most influential composers of the 14th century in France (Burkholder, J. Peter, et al. 120). He represented the musical style Ars Nova, coined by Phillip de Vitry

Paule Maurice lived from 1910 until 1967 as a French female composer. She studied and spent her professional life at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and wrote many works, but her most famous work is the Tableaux de Provence, translated "Picture of Provence”. Henri Busser was Maurice’s professor and she then won first prize in composition. She was a great teacher of sight-reading and theory at the Paris Conservatoire and Norma School of Music. Since Maurice was a teacher

The Romance of the Rose was written in the 13th century by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. De Lorris was a French poet that wrote the first section of the poem, while De Meun was a French author that wrote the second section. After de Lorris wrote the first section, he died, which lead to de Meun finishing it. Their parts are related but have many differences. As de Lorris’ section is very comprehendible, de Meuns’ is vaguer and requires more critical thinking. The poem has created an abundance

Middle Ages and Renaissance Era The Middle Ages were not known for their choice in government, ways of living, or their views on the Church. Rather, they were known for making the best of what was given to the, which was music. During the early Middle Ages, peasants stayed bound to the land they were given, but had to depend on landlords for protection. Also, many social bonds were ties of kinship, which lead to the emergence of feudalism among the warrior aristocracy ("The Middle Ages: Feudal Life"

virelai, with each type being different to one another. Many composers of the fourteenth century used formes fixes, with Philippe de Vitry being the first to use them, and the most significant composer to use them was Guillaume de Machaut. I will be looking into what makes each type of formes fixes different from one another, as well as seeing how composers such as Machaut created them and used them in his repertory and how each type has evolved through the fourteenth and

Artists used a variety of newer principles and techniques, utilizing mostly Marian texts and combining vocal and instrumental pairs of voices. For three-part song motets, Guillaume Dufay utilized a treble-dominated texture derived from the chanson which is a lyrical composition of French words. More specifically, it is a French polyphonic song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Johannes Brasart, a Walloon like Dufay

That is, composers could include more vocal parts such as duplum and triplum. Motet is evolved from “a textual trope of a clausula to a newly composed piece valued for its complex patterns and multiple layers of meaning.” Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut in the following century were also the leading composers of medieval