21. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Machaut Detailed biography, links, and recommended recordings from the Classical Net Basic Repertoire List. http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/machaut.html

The Internet's Premier Classical Music Source Home Basic Repertoire Composers Books and Scores ... Music Links Related Links Recommended Biographies CD / DVD Reviews Find CDs Amazon UK Germany Canada ... CD Universe Find DVDs Amazon UK Germany Canada ... Video Universe Find Scores / Sheet Music Sheet Music Plus Musicnotes Tradition of Courtly Love by Elizabeth G. Melillo Machaut and the French Ars Nova by Hope Greenberg Guillaume de Machaut Machaut Discography by Pierre Roberge Medieval Repertoire Basic Repertoire Composer Index Affiliates Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 - 1377) Guillaume de Machaut (d.1377) is one of the undisputed pinnacle geniuses of Western music, and the most famous composer of the Middle Ages. Today his four-voice Mass of Notre Dame . The remainder of the fourteenth century was an epic of wars and plagues, and one of the few periods in which the population of Europe declined, but Machaut's reputation continued to rise. He went on to serve two kings of France, and was charged with a task as important as accompanying hostages during the English war. In 1361 the Dauphine was received in Machaut's quarters, an exceptional event. By the 1370s Machaut's name was associated with Pierre de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, thus establishing his fame nearly as far as Asia. Machaut is frequently portrayed today as an avant garde virelais and especially the lengthy lais . He also acted decisively to refine the emerging polyphonic song forms ballade rondeau , and these were to become the dominant fixed forms for the following generations. What Machaut achieved so eloquently is an idiomatic and natural combination of words with music, forcefully compelling in its lyrical grace and rhythmic sophistication. His songs are immediately enjoyable, because he was able to shape the smallest melodic nuances as well as to conceive of forms on a large scale. The latter is reflected in his poetic-musical creations

22. Guillaume De Machaut Biography from Grove s Concise Dictionary of Music. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/machaut.html

Epoch: Medieval Country: France Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300-1377) Detailed Information about Messe de Nostre Dame Picture Gallery List of Works Bibliography Introduction (born ?Reims, circa 1300; died there, ?13 April 1377). Probably educated in Reims, he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, as a royal secretary, circa 1323. 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). He then served various members of the French high nobiIity, including John, Duke of Berry, his later years being dedicated to the manuscript compilation of his works. With his prolific output of motets and songs, Machaut was the single most important figure of the French Ars Nova. He followed and developed the guidelines of Philippe de Vitry's treatise Ars nova and, in particular, observed Vitry's unprecedented advocation of duple time in many of his works, even in his setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. Only in some of his lais and virelais and the Hoquetus David did he consistently adhere to 13th-century rhythmic patterns and genres. His own rhythmic style is novel in its use of variety and motivic interest, particularly through syncopation, and in his development of

23. International Machaut Society Home Page The best single source for information about machaut, his manuscripts, and his works is Lawrence Earp, guillaume de machaut A Guide to Research, http://www.loyno.edu/~avclark/Machaut/imshome.htm

International Machaut Society We've moved! These pages have moved south from Vanderbilt, their original host, to Loyola University New Orleans. As the new webmaster for the International Machaut Society, I'd like publicly and enthusiastically to thank Cynthia Cyrus for developing, maintaining, and hosting these pages. I'll try to keep them up as well as I can, but the creative work is all Cynthia's. Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, reports of broken links, suggestions of new things to add, or anything else. Alice V. Clark College of Music, Loyola University New Orleans avclark@loyno.edu Who are we? The International Machaut Society is a not-for-profit scholarly organization founded in 1985 and 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. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and performance traditions. Fields of inquiry fostered by the Society include, but are not limited to, literary history and criticism; music history, criticism, and theory; the performing arts; art history; and codicology. Study and performance of works of other poets and composers or of other performance and manuscript traditions are also included within activities sponsored by the Society insofar as they contribute significantly to study of the background, context, or influence of the works of Machaut.

24. 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. http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/composers/machaut.html

Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) 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. It will be developed and updated in both parts. Last Updates: 08/25/2007 (discography), 11/30/2006 (texts) pfr@videotron.ca mccomb@medieval.org Biography Guillaume de Machaut (d.1377) is one of the undisputed pinnacle geniuses of Western music, and the most famous composer of the Middle Ages. Today his four-voice Mass of Notre Dame . The remainder of the fourteenth century was an epic of wars and plagues, and one of the few periods in which the population of Europe declined, but Machaut's reputation continued to rise. He went on to serve two kings of France, and was charged with a task as important as accompanying hostages during the English war. In 1361 the Dauphine was received in Machaut's quarters, an exceptional event. By the 1370s Machaut's name was associated with Pierre de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, thus establishing his fame nearly as far as Asia. Machaut is frequently portrayed today as an avant garde virelais and especially the lengthy lais . He also acted decisively to refine the emerging polyphonic song forms ballade rondeau , and these were to become the dominant fixed forms for the following generations. What Machaut achieved so eloquently is an idiomatic and natural combination of words with music, forcefully compelling in its lyrical grace and rhythmic sophistication. His songs are immediately enjoyable, because he was able to shape the smallest melodic nuances as well as to conceive forms on a larger scale. The latter is reflected especially in his poetic-musical creations

25. Guillaume De Machaut Among these composers of the socalled Ars nova (literally new art ) was guillaume de machaut. machaut lived his life in the higher ranks of service, http://www.wwnorton.com/classical/composers/machaut.htm

GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT Born: c. 1300, Rheims? Died: ?April 13, 1377, Rheims French poet and musician. Composer of monophonic and polyphonic music. Leading representative of the Ars nova tradition. The fourteenth century was, as the historian Barbara Tuchman notes, a calamitous century. Europe was ravaged by plague, which killed up to one-third of the population in a three-year period. France and England embarked on the disastrous Hundred Years' War (1328–1450) which inflicted great misery on the French people. On top of this, political conflicts resulted first in the relocation of the papacy from Rome to Avignon in southern France (1309) and ultimately in the election of competing popes (at one point, numbering three) resulting in the Great Schism (1378–1417). Ironically, this was also a time of great achievement in music. A new class of highly trained composers continued the polyphonic traditions of the previous century and added new approaches to rhythm and structure. Among these composers of the so-called Ars nova (literally "new art") was Guillaume de Machaut. 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. Like many in the fourteenth century, Machaut's life and works reflect an equal measure of the sacred and secular. Most of his works were either secular (such as his many chansons) or a mix of sacred and ceremonial (including many of his motets and his hocket "David," which was probably written for the coronation service of King Charles V in 1364). At the same time, he wrote what is probably the first full setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single composer (the

26. HOASM: Guillaume De Machaut Biography, related composers, external links, discography, and internal links to facsimiles and additional period material from the Here Of A Sunday Morning http://www.hoasm.org/IID/Machaut.html

Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) We have no precise knowledge of Guillaume de Machaut's early years. He was probably born around 1300 in the diocese of Rheims in Champagne and he may have spent some time studying in Paris where, since the 13th century, the most sophisticated musical theories had been elaborated. A papal bull of Benedict XII dated 1335 states that for about twelve years Guillaume had been the almoner ( clericus elimosinarius ), secretary and familiar of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia whom he accompanied on his expeditions throughout Europe. This great feudal lord, King of Bohemia and stalwart and inalienable ally of the royal house of France, travelled the length and breadth of Europe in pursuit of his various military and political campaigns, and his secretary followed faithfully at his side throughout these often turbulent peregrinations. Dit de la Harpe, 255-256), Machaut composed all abundance of poems. The future king Charles V even paid him a visit at home in 1361. Near the end of his life, his output was copied, at the request of his illustrious patrons and admirers, into a set of manuscripts beautifully written in calligraphic script and richly illuminated. The author himself seems to have supervised their preparation and production, since all the pieces are meticulously ordered: the narrative poems or dits, which are purely literary, come before the compositions in Lyric style and the sacred works (the Mass and Latin motets). Only a part of the writings in lyric style (consisting of lais, ballades, rondeaux, virelais, as they are ordered in the manuscripts) is set to music. In Machaut's case, the poet ultimately takes precedence over the musician.

27. Guillaume De Machaut Translate this page guillaume de machaut est né dans une famille roturière, originaire de machaut, petit village en Champagne, situé non loin de Reims. http://www.anthologie.free.fr/anthologie/machaut/machaut.htm

Le Livre du Voir-Dit Ballade: Plourez, dames,... Rondeau: Sans cuer, dolens... Le Lay de Bonne Esperance Rondeau: Puis qu'en oubli... [v.1300] - [v.1377] Guillaume de Machaut Espoirs attrait Joie et bonne Aventure; Dous Pensers fait Plaisence en cuer entrer. Si ne doit plus demander Cils qui a bonne Esperance, Dous Penser, Joie et Plaisance, Car qui plus requiert, je di Guillaume de Machaut, extrait de son seul Chant Royal. Guillaume de Machaut , originaire de Machaut , petit village en Champagne Reims Ars Nova clerc Reims Paris Une bulle du , nous apprend que Machaut Jean de Luxembourg , depuis une et qu'il suivit son protecteur dans ses campagnes militaires et ses voyages Europe prince Le Jugement du roi de Behaigne 1346 env. La Fonteinne amoureuse ). Pendant

28. Guillaume De Machaut (v. 1300-1377) Translate this page gallica.bnf.fr/themes/LitMAz6.htm - Translate this page Composer guillaume de machaut (c1300-1377). Alphabetic listing of musical settings warning - not exhaustive. x indicates a text that is not yet in the http://gallica.bnf.fr/themes/LitMAz6.htm

Guillaume de Machaut (v. 1300-1377) G e et XV e Prologue Son chef d'oeuvre est Le Livre du Voir Dit Voir Dit est une confession autobiographique sur la vieillesse et la position sociale du poète, mais aussi et surtout une réflexion sur l'expérience littéraire, les pouvoirs de la littérature, les mouvements de la mémoire qui y sont à l'oeuvre (le poète est Phoebus et le livre Esculape : comme Esculape les morts, il fait revivre les souvenirs enfuis). Ce livre en train de s'écrire, qu'on a pu qualifier de "nouveau roman" du XIV e

29. The Medieval Lyric - About Guillaume De Machaut Biography, period art, and score with MOV audio for his Rondolet. Intended to aid the teaching of preRenaissance song. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/medst/medieval_lyric/machaut/

The Medieval Lyric Guillaume de Machaut Remede de Fortune Home Search Site Index About ... Rondelet About Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut and the Remede de Fortune Machaut died in 1377. If he can be called a trouvère, his life followed a quite different pattern from most trouvères. Like Machaut, they benefited from highly placed patronage, but none had the important position within the church hierarchy that Machaut enjoyed at Reims. Machaut had a professional status most of them never attained, and he moved with equal ease in sacred and secular spheres. 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. Music is usually in its own section in the manuscript, and notated pieces normally appear only there. For example, a lyric poem may be found without music in the lyric poetry section, but if it is to have music, it recurs with its music in the music section. Musical compositions are divisible into secular ( ballades, rondeaux, virelais, lais

30. - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 Karadar Dictionary entry with life, MIDI audio samples, portrait and other illustrations, and list of important works. http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/machaut.html

Composers Biography Languages Guillaume de Machaut Life Best Works Photo Gallery Home Page Guillaume de Machaut Life Probably educated in Reims, he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, as a royal secretary, circa 1323. 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). He then served various members of the French high nobiIity, including John, Duke of Berry, his later years being dedicated to the manuscript compilation of his works. With his prolific output of motets and songs, Machaut was the single most important figure of the French Ars Nova. MIDI FILE - Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure He followed and developed the guidelines of Philippe de Vitry's treatise Ars nova and, in particular, observed Vitry's unprecedented advocation of duple time in many of his works, even in his setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. MIDI FILE - Agnus Dei Only in some of his lais and virelais and the Hoquetus David did he consistently adhere to 13th-century rhythmic patterns and genres. His own rhythmic style is novel in its use of variety and motivic interest, particularly through syncopation, and in his development of isorhythmic techniques (which he often extended to all voices): all but three of his 23 motets, and four of the movements of the Messe de Nostre Dame, are isorhythmic.

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32. Guillaume De Machaut Biographical information on the middle ages musician named guillaume de machaut. http://musiced.about.com/od/middleages/p/deMachaut.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Music Education Musician Profiles ... Medieval Composers Guillaume de Machaut Music Education Education Music Education Essentials ... Submit to Digg Elsewhere on the Web Messe de Nostre Dame The Medieval Hocket Guillaume de Machaut Related Resources Musicians at a Glance History of Music Renaissance Timeline Most Popular Piano Sheets Sheet Music Music and Martin Luther King Guitar Tabs ... Graduation Songs Profile of Guillaume de Machaut From Espie Estrella Your Guide to Music Education FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Born: In the 1300's Birthplace: Machaut, France Died: April 13, 1377 in Reims, France Also known as: An avant garde composer and most known representative of the Ars Nova tradition. Type of Compositions: Sacred and secular polyphonic music Musical Work: Among his works are 42 ballads, 33 virelais, 22 rondeaux, 19 lais, 1 complainte, 1 chanson royale, 23 motets most known of which is "Messe de Nostre Dame" and a hocket titled "David". Interesting Fact: He was the secretary of John of Luxemburg, King of Bohemia.

33. MACHAUT, Guillaume De (Machault, Guglielmus De Mascandio) Translate this page Biographie und Bibliographie im Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikon. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/m/machaut_g.shtml

Verlag Traugott Bautz www.bautz.de/bbkl Zur Hauptseite Suche in den Texten des BBKL ... Helfen Sie uns, das BBKL aktuell zu halten! Band XVII (2000) Spalten 887-892 Autor: Armin Raab Werke Ausgabe literarischer Werke: Œuvres de G. de M., hrsg. v. E. Hoeppfner, 3 Bde., Paris 1908-21. - Ausgaben musikalischer Werke: 4 Bde., hrsg. v. F. Ludwig u. H. Besseler, Leipzig 1926-29 (Publikationen älterer Musik I, III, IV), 1943; 2 Bde., hrsg. von L. Schrade, Monaco 1956-57 (Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century 2-3); - Einzelausgaben der Messe, hrsg. v. J. Chailley, Paris 1948, v. A. Machabey, Lüttich 1948, v. G. de Van, Rom 1949 (Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae II/1); - Faksimile der Messe hrsg. von F. Gennrich, Darmstadt 1957; - La louange des dames, hrsg. v. N. Wilkins, Edinburgh 1972. Lit.: Armin Raab

34. Werner Icking Music Archive: Guillaume De Machaut Werner Icking Music Archive Sheet Music; Archives musicales partitions; Archivio di Musica Spartiti; Musikarchiv Noten; machaut. http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Machaut.php

Music Archive Home Other Composers New Scores Revised Scores WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive  image of an example page,  further information,  sound,  e-mail address,  external Link,  PDF-file, compressed postscript file Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) biography, HOASM biography, Wikipedia Ma fin est mon commencement for instruments/choir TTB or TTT, transcribed from ms. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229 , Bodleyan Library - edited by N. Nakamura for his Medieval Music web site Atrium Maucamedi - with M-Tx/MusiXTeX source files La Messe de Nostre Dame for vocalists AATT Kyrie - edited by Pierre Gouin - with Finale 2005 source file Gloria - edited by Pierre Gouin - with Finale 2005 source file Ite, missa est for vocalists AATT - edited by Jürgen Knuth - with Capella source file Music Archive Home Other Composers New Scores Revised Scores 2001-02-08, Werner Icking (1943-2001), GMD Christian Mondrup Werner Icking Music Archive Bodleian MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229

35. La Discographie De Guillaume De Machaut Translate this page machaut, guillaume de Messe de notre Dame, le Dou Voit Dit Oxford Camerata; machaut, guillaume de Miroir de Narcisse Kirby; Ensemble Gothic Voices; Dir. http://www.cdmail.fr/affich_art.asp?refcdmail=CDM703431

36. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT, Biography, Discography 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 http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/history/composers/11423.php

language="en"; español français A B ... Z GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT (c.1300 - 1377) Probably educated in Reims, he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, as a royal secretary, circa 1323. 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). He then served various members of the French high nobiIity, including John, Duke of Berry, his later years being dedicated to the manuscript compilation of his works. With his prolific output of motets and songs, Machaut was the single most important figure of the French Ars Nova. He followed and developed the guidelines of Philippe de Vitry's treatise Ars nova and, in particular, observed Vitry's unprecedented advocation of duple time in many of his works, even in his setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. Only in some of his lais and virelais and the Hoquetus David did he consistently adhere to 13th-century rhythmic patterns and genres. His own rhythmic style is novel in its use of variety and motivic interest, particularly through syncopation, and in his development of isorhythmic techniques (which he often extended to all voices): all but three of his 23 motets, and four of the movements of the Messe de Nostre Dame, are isorhythmic. The mass is one of the earliest polyphonic settings of the Mass Ordinary; the four isorhythmic movements are based on Gregorian tenors, while the Gloria and Credo are freely constructed.

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38. Célébrations Nationales 2000 - Guillaume De Machaut Translate this page Figure majeure du XIVe siècle français dans le domaine des lettres comme dans celui de la musique, guillaume de machaut a été reconnu de son temps et dans http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/celebrations2000/machaut.htm

Lui-même marque un tournant dans le domaine des lettres. Dernier "poète musicien" dans la tradition des troubadours et des trouvères, il pousse à leur ultime épanouissement les tendances du lyrisme médiéval de la voix, pour l'ouvrir au champ de l'écriture, suivant en cela le modèle du Roman de la Rose. Il articule art ancien et art nouveau, ars antiqua et ars nova, "vieille et nouvelle forge" selon ses propres termes dans le Remède de Fortune. Cette œuvre est à rapporter à son nom. Orgueil de l'écrivain qui signe ses dits. Ainsi du Jugement du Roi de Navarre : "Je, Guillaumes dessus nommez, Qui de Machau sui seurnommez". La signature, le plus souvent par anagramme, est un phénomène caractéristique de son écriture. Le prologue qu'il donne a posteriori au livre (recueil de toutes ses œuvres) est significatif. Guillaume se voit investi d'une mission par deux forces qui l'ont élu : Nature et Amour. Le poète a été "fourmé a part" pour "fourmer/Nouviaus dis amoureus plaisans". Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet programme des manifestations Paris 1er et 2 juillet "Le Voir Dit", de Guillaume de Machaut, par le Trio Dialogos, dirigé par Katarina Livljanic, au musée du Moyen Âge. Présentation du concert par Michel Zink, professeur au Collège de France, directeur de la collection "Lettres gothiques" au Livre de Poche, qui vient de publier Le Voir Dit (introd. et mises à jour de J. Cerquiglini-Toulet.

39. Guillaume De Machaut - Encyclopédie Universalis Translate this page Enluminure extraite d un recueil d œuvres de guillaume de machaut le poète et musicien (à droite) reçoit la Nature, qui lui présente le Sentiment, http://www.universalis.fr/media-encyclopedie/87/PH020293/encyclopedie/Guillaume_

Guillaume de Machaut L'image ci-dessous est volontairement dégradée car ce contenu est normalement réservé à nos utilisateurs abonnés. Erich Lessing/ AKG Enluminure extraite d'un recueil d'œuvres de Guillaume de Machaut : le poète et musicien (à droite) reçoit la Nature, qui lui présente le Sentiment, la Rhétorique et la Musique. Document lié aux médias MESSE NOTRE-DAME (G. de Machaut)

40. Guillaume De Machaut Classical Music Compositions And Guillaume De Classical music compositions of guillaume de machaut and classical hit collection. guillaume de machaut cds for your classic music collections available to http://www.classicsonline.com/composerbio/22618.htm

register now! Home Genres Classical Music ... M > Machaut, Guillaume de Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377) View Discography 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. He was employed subsequently by various members of the nobility, including the future Charles V of France. He held various church benefices and as a musician was pre-eminent in the period in the history of music known as the Ars nova, when composers created music of increased rhythmic complexity. Church Music 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. His Hoquetus David makes similar use of the technique of isorhythm, in which a given basic sequence of notes, derived normally from plainchant, is divided into a repeated rhythmic pattern. The hocket referred to in the title is a musical hiccough, a popular technical device of the time, in which the musical line is interrupted by sudden rests. Secular Music Machaut was a prolific composer of secular vocal music, in the contemporary metrical and musical forms of lais, virelais, ballades and rondeaux.

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