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Machaut

American  
[ma-shoh] / maˈʃoʊ /
Or Machault

noun

  1. Guillaume de Guillaume de Machaut.


Machaut British  
/ maʃo /

noun

  1. Guillaume de. (ɡijom də) c. 1300–77, French composer and poet; a leading exponent of ars nova

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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

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

Examples of musical labyrinths can be found in abundance in the choral music of Guillaume de Machaut, a composer-poet working in northern France in the mid-fourteenth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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