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  Guillaume de Machaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300 1377), was a French composer and poet of the late Medieval era.
Machaut was especially influential in the development of motets and secular song (particularly the formes fixes, the lai, virelai and ballade), and he also wrote the earliest complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass which can be attributed to a single composer.
Machaut was probably born and educated in Rheims.
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 Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guillaume de Machaut, a leading French composer and poet of the 14th century, was born in Rheims, were he spent the greater part of his life, after earlier employment in the service of John of Luxemburg, King of Bohemia.
Machaut's best known composition is his Messe de Notre Dame, Mass of Our Lady, an early example of a cyclic setting of the liturgical text, in which the sections are musically related.
Machaut was a prolific composer of secular vocal music, in the contemporary metrical and musical forms of lais, virelais, ballades and rondeaux.
www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Machaut,+Guillaume+de   (210 words)

  
 GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT, Biography, Discography
MACHAUT, GUILLAUME DE (c.1300 - 1377) Probably educated in Reims, he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, as a royal secretary, circa 1323.
More progressive features of Machaut's style - an increased awareness of tonality, the use of unifying rhythmic motifs - are found in his polyphonic settings of rondeaux and ballades, while melodic considerations are to the fore in his virelais.
Typical of Machaut's compositional flair and imagination is the rondeau Ma fin est mon commencement in which the text provides the key to an ingenious canon.
www.goldbergweb.com /en/history/composers/11423.php   (396 words)

  
 Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut (d.1377) is one of the undisputed pinnacle geniuses of Western music, and the most famous composer of the Middle Ages.
Machaut's poetic output, and by extension the subset of texts he chose to set to music, is both personal and ritualized, lending it a timeless quality.
Machaut marks the end of the lineage of the trouvères, and with it the development of the monophonic art song in the West.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/machaut.html   (1024 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut
Machaut was born around 1300 in the Champagne region of France.
Machaut had accompanied the king on several military campaigns, including the disastrous battle of Crecy where the king fulfilled his chivalric destiny by charging into the fray, even though he was blind.
Machaut's La Messe de Notre Dame is, deservedly, the best-known composition of the entire age.
www.nvcc.edu /home/jwulff/machaut/Machaut.htm   (679 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Machaut lived his life in the higher ranks of service, first as secretary to John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, and then as a canon (a church official) at the Cathedral of Rheims.
Much of Machaut's polyphonic music reflects the interest that composers had in building complex structures based on the repetition and manipulation of borrowed melodies (a technique called isorhythm).
The harmonies found in Machaut's pieces are built around the fifth and the octave, the primary consonances of the period.
www.wwnorton.com /enjoy/shorter/composers/machaut.htm   (496 words)

  
 The Medieval Lyric - About Guillaume de Machaut
What especially characterizes Machaut and sets him off from earlier traditions is that he was one of the first writers to whom the words "poet" or "author" in the modern sense could be applied.
Machaut’s works may be divided into the categories he establishes — with one exception — in his manuscripts: narrative verse, lyric poetry, and musical compositions.
Machaut’s achievement is particularly influential with the ballade, the form through which he most brilliantly demonstrated his new style, and which became the most important form of the 14th century.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/medst/medieval_lyric/machaut   (696 words)

  
 Music - Guillaume de Machaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
De Machaut was born in 1300 and was a cantor at the Notre Dame in Rheims.
De Machaut became canon in 1337 and composed secular music for king John.
The result of these experiments is his masterpiece the 'Messe de Notre Dame', composed after the outbreak of the fl death and the first mass composed by one composer.
home.hccnet.nl /arnoud.de.bruijn/html/music/MusicDeMachaut.htm   (81 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut
However Machaut's work is extensive, with his French songs and poetry dominating the fourteenth century by both their quality and volume.
This mass was written as part of the commemoration of the Virgin endowed by the Machaut brothers at Rheims, and was intended for performance in a smaller setting by specialized soloists.
Machaut's mass is not the earliest surviving mass cycle (there are two which predate it), but it is the earliest by a single composer and indeed the earliest to display this degree of unity.
www.lichtensteiger.de /machaut.html   (377 words)

  
 Courtly love and Machaut
Machaut’s work may be considered as “classical” music, and this too involved transition.
The musician Machaut’s chansons are notable for harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic innovations.
The comparative profusion of sources containing Machaut’s work is, in part, due to this situation, for he had the custom of supervising the preparation of presentation manuscripts for his noble patrons and friends...
www.gloriana.nu /courtly.html   (2748 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut, the #1 Musician of the 14th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Machaut's compositional practice illustrates a style of music referred to as the French ars nova, of which he was the master.
During the time in which Machaut lived, it was a common practice for men, when writing poetry, to address a lady, either real or imaginary, to whom they would dedicate their undying love and loyalty.
Much of Machaut's poetry he wrote in first person, where the narrator poet is a vassal expressing love and admiration for a noble lady and hoping to become more noble himself and one day attaining the lady's favors.
www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/evan.htm   (1679 words)

  
 GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was famous as composer and poet and wrote a mass for the coronation of Charles V in 1349.
Machaut was one of the finest poets of his day, and Chaucer could not have escaped his influence.
" MAE 44 (1976): 277-293; ibid., The Marguerite Poems of Guillaume de Machaut.
www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/G/guillau2.htm   (414 words)

  
 HOASM: Guillaume de Machaut
Machaut lived more like a trouvère than a cleric, traveling widely with and for his patrons (perhaps as far as Poland and Lithuania) and writing his poetry and music on command for courtly occasions.
Machaut was equally esteemed as both poet and musician during his lifetime; in fact, three-quarters of his surviving work is unaccompanied poetry, full of structural intricacies and love for anagram and other fiddles.
In 1340 Machaut decided, however, without leaving the employ of his patron, to retire to Rheims as a canon of the cathedral, where he led the sedentary life of a tonsured cleric.
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 Guillaume de Machaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1323 he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia, as a royal secretary and this is where he spent the greater part of his life.
With the help of the king, Machaut later became a canon of Reims, where he resided from 1340 until his death.
Machaut's Messe de Nosrte Dame is, considered the best-known composition of the entire age.
cis.kvcc.edu /HTMLStudents/AliJ/final/composers/machaut.htm   (121 words)

  
 Machaut, Guillaume de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame is the earliest known polyphonic setting of the Catholic mass.
Machaut was probably born in Machaut, a town in the Champagne region of France.
Machaut was a musician, poet, and an educated priest.
www.stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/machaut1377.html   (526 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut
Machaut, Guillaume de, c.1300–1377, French poet and composer.
The recipient of numerous papal benefices, Machaut was canon at Reims from 1340 until his death.
Guillaume de Machaut - Guillaume de Machaut: see Machaut, Guillaume de.
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 International Machaut Society (Links)
De Chant et de Ditté Nouvelle Machaut and the French Ars Nova, Hope Greenberg, c.
Machaut repertory in the Paduan fragments by Michael Scott Cuthbert.
Célébrations nationales 2000: the birth of Guillaume de Machaut.
www.loyno.edu /~avclark/Machaut/imslinks.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This makes a nice introduction to Machaut for the casual listener, including both the mass and some of his songs.
The Mass has been recorded at Reims Cathedral, where Machaut was canon, using some kind of "buzzword" electronic gadget to capture the acoustic.
So this is my little note to those readers who use this recording to explore Guillaume de Machaut, one of the undisputed all-time greats of Western culture, for the first time.
www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/nxs53833.htm   (401 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut
According to The Oxford Companion to Music, Guillaume de Machaut [also Machault] was born about 1300 at Machaut in the Ardennes and died in Rheims about 1377.
A complete edition of his works was begun in 1926 but later abandoned.
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) Discography, Biography, Lyrics at Medieval.org by Pierre-F. Roberge (discography) and Todd M. McComb (text).
www.grainger.de /music/composers/machaut.html   (198 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Machaut was highly influential both as a composer and a poet for at least one century next to his own.
The "Messe de Nostre Dame" is Machaut's best known -- to non-specialists -- work, however the bulk of his creation consists of the formes fixes and the motets.
Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame / The Hilliard Ensemble
www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=machaut   (519 words)

  
 Island of Freedom - Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a French poet and the most accomplished and versatile composer of the 14th century.
Machaut's short, gemlike lyrics helped establish the rondeaux, ballade, and virelai, poetic forms that prevailed for more than a century.
His four-part Messe de Notre Dame is the earliest known polyphonic setting of the mass by a single composer.
www.island-of-freedom.com /MACHAUT.HTM   (328 words)

  
 Guillaume de Machaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guillaume de Machuat, a medieval composer of the fourteen century, was born in 1300, in Rheims, France.
Some of his most famous works are the Mass of Notre Dame, Remede de Fortune, a long narrative poem, and Ma Finest Mon Commencement, in which the text provide a key to a cannon.
Machautâs work the Mass of Notre Dame, is very complex and fancy, unusual for church music at that time.
www.wvec.k12.in.us /kes/music/dcf98/denad.html   (283 words)

  
 Machaut: Discography, Biography, Lyrics
This is both a reasonably complete discography of Guillaume de Machaut written in 1998 as well as a compendium of Machaut's musical lyrics gathered in 1999.
The numbering given is that for Machaut's musical output in accordance with the Ludwig Edition (Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, edited by Friedrich Ludwig and Heinrich Besseler, Leipzig 1926-54), with that in the Schrade Edition (Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, volumes ii-iii, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco 1956) as an alternate after "/".
Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame and Perotinus Magnus and Philippe Le Chancelier - Musique à Notre Dame de Paris
www.medieval.org /emfaq/composers/machaut.html   (4677 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Guillaume de Machaut
Find the music of Guillaume de Machaut in the Archives.
Machaut, Guillaume de [Guillaume de Machault] (b Reims, c.
His most important works are probably the Messe de Notre Dame for 4 vv.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/machaut.html   (248 words)

  
 International Machaut Society Home Page
The International Machaut Society is a not-for-profit scholarly organization devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca.
The award, given every other year, is designed to promote the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of Guillaume de Machaut.
The IMS also notes that it is the entry point for Machaut research on the DMOZ open directory project.
www.loyno.edu /~avclark/Machaut/imshome.htm   (861 words)

  
 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
The king helped him to procure a canonry in Reims, which was confirmed in 1335.
Machaut settled there circa 1340, although he continued in royal service until the king's death (1346).
The most important works of G. de Machaut
www.karadar.it /Dictionary/machaut.html   (359 words)

  
 Rhapsody Music: Download, Listen, Play & Burn Guillaume de Machaut
This French poet/musician demonstrates the Ars Nova musical style of the fourteenth century.
Often wrote on the theme of courtly love.
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