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Guillaume de Machaut
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Thank You
Background music: "De Fortune me doy pleindre" - Guillaume de Machaut
Influences
- His poem "Le voir dit" was about an affair with a nineteen year old girl. It may or may not be true.
- He was influenced by personal experiences.
- Influenced later composers and poets like Geoffrey Chaucer (one of the first writers to write in English).
Bio. Cont.
- Guillaume de Machaut was a poet
- He wrote songs for most of his poems, making the perfect blend of words and music.
- "Messe de Nostre Dame" or "Mass of Our Lady" is not only Machaut's most famous polyphonic composition, but it is probably the most famous from the medieval time period.
- One of the leading French composers of the Ars Nova (New Art) musical style.
Compositions
"Messe de Nostre Dame"
- Polyphonic Mass
- 5 Movements: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
- Four voices (2 altos & 2 tenors)
- Little dynamic variation
- He wrote over 100 different compositions consisting of the following:
- 42 Ballades
- 1 Complainte
- 1 Chanson Royale
- 1 Double Hocket
- 19 Lais
- 1 Mass
- 24 Motets
- 22 Rondeaux
- 33 Virelais
- 7 Others
- Most Famous: "Messe de Notre Dame"
Biography
(gee-yohm duh ma-shoh)
- Born around 1300 and died on April 13, 1377 in Reims, France.
- He worked for a number of aristocrats and rulers, including John I, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia and King Charles V of Normandy.
- Fun Fact: He survived the Black Death, which killed about 25 million people.
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