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Encyclopedia: Music of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Main article: Music of Brittany Brittany is on the northwest coast of France and is a region unique in that country in its Celtic cultural derivation. |
 | | The first was the ars nova, the new, predominantly secular music which began with the publication of the Roman de Fauvel, and culminated in the rondeaux, ballades, lais, virelais, motets, and single surviving mass of Guillaume de Machaut, who died in 1370. |
 | | The ars nova was a stylistic period in music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period from the publication of the Roman de Fauvel (1310 and 1314) until the death of Machaut (1377). |
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