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Marcella Mendez
Music Appreciation
7/13/20
Composer Feature: Guillaume de Machaut
Discussion
Machaut's music is memorable because he was able to get the simplest sounds and turn them into a complex piece. he was a poet and a scribe in early france, and scribes were known to group their music by single movements. Religious songs would be typically grouped following the amount of times each prayer in the scriptures would have to be repeated. It soon started the basis for polyphonic settings in religious music played in cathedrals. He also influenced how artists in diffrent types of music genres can use a polyphonic structure within their music. As well as, how multiple diffrent melodies can make one complete sound, whether it was in a sacred or a secular style of music during the renaissance era.
It inspires other musicians/composers to take the next step and make it better as music is constantly evolving and changing. de machaut curated a polyphonic style of making music that is still used today in many different music genres. You can hear the polyphonic sounds and harmonies within a pop song, a rock song or pretty much any song that is trending today. He was versatile as he made songs in secular and sacred aspects, which shows that any musician/ composer can use any style being new or preexisting within their music and have a complete piece out of it when they put their mind to it.