Machaut
Americannoun
noun
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Machaut may have relied on ancient musical modes because that’s what composers had to work with in the 14th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
The choreographer Mark Morris has organized an immersion in Indian music; William Kentridge directs a puppet-theater production of Monteverdi’s “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse”; and the pianist Jeremy Denk’s solo recital spans Machaut to Philip Glass.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
By beginning its contemporary program with Machaut, the quartet was claiming him as a pioneering ancestor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2010
They began with three works by the 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut: a rondeau, a ballade and a motet, arranged by Ari Streisfeld, one of the JACK’s violinists.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2010
Although Perotin’s use of chords would have to be described as eccentric bordering on haphazard, by the time of Machaut the general menu of approved-of chords was in fact extremely limited.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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