Machaut
Americannoun
noun
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“Many a fine, noble estate / Lay idle without those to work it,” wrote the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut, who weathered the plague by hiding locked up in his tower.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
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
Adventurous programming, as ever, is on offer from this vocal and instrumental ensemble, this time exploring so-called ancient groove music and the evolution of dance music, from Machaut and Monteverdi to Reich and Gorecki.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
In January the quartet played a concert in a series at ClefWorks, a chamber music festival in Montgomery, Ala. The program had the Machaut arrangements and works by Webern and others.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 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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