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Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelt Machault (c.1300–1377), was an important mediaeval French poet and composer.
Guilllaume de Machaut was “the last great poet who was also a composer,” in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the fifteenthth century, Machaut’s poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets including Geoffrey Chaucer. Machaut is also the most celebrated composer of the 14th century; he composed in a wide range of styles and forms and his output was enormous. He was the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova. Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song (particularly the formes fixes, the lai, virelai, and ballade). Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer, and influenced composers for centuries after his death.
Guilllaume de Machaut was “the last great poet who was also a composer,” in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the fifteenthth century, Machaut’s poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets including Geoffrey Chaucer. Machaut is also the most celebrated composer of the 14th century; he composed in a wide range of styles and forms and his output was enormous. He was the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova. Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song (particularly the formes fixes, the lai, virelai, and ballade). Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer, and influenced composers for centuries after his death.
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xzwqt wrote:
<+frussif> look at all the losers in the shoutbox
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arlaqin wrote:
and one of the greatest of all time
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amebixxx wrote:
fucking excellent!
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fredlol wrote:
The greatest musician of his time
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NixEverAfter wrote:
He just died 700 years ago and he's on tour, that guy is amazing. :D
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Dedran wrote:
No modern composer could ever create music like this. All the plastic attempts to create "ancient" music by Dead Can Dance, Arcana and the like are a joke by comparison.
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melanQw wrote:
adorable [2]
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insomniacme wrote:
and the like
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dyland11 wrote:
700 year reunion tour, still downing an unhealthy amount of ale and getting mad wenches
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LuanLDOM wrote:
On tour.
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progtrance7 wrote:
What a dude of a composer
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Ulfheddin wrote:
Ensemble Organum's interpretation of the Messe de Notre Dame is the best, from what I've heard. The emphasis on the low voices is a refreshing change from the modern bias that plagues performances of ancient music.
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OffThePigs wrote:
I adore such kind of music.
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adelinadarkstar wrote:
This music really is beautiful and it deserves to be cherished.
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jiveraptor wrote:
a_muse_ing: trash never changes, I guess you could say
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Spectacolos wrote:
amscab: just reflects what people who listen to GdM also listen to.
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amscab wrote:
Every time I play this radio I get as much Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen, Feldman, Ligeti, etc as I get artists actually similar to GdM. Although the two styles often blend surprisingly well, this is really weird...
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Grosseteste wrote:
"Renaissance" is a bit of a vague term at best, and especially so with regard to music -- as there *was* no Renaissance in music. The term is thus generally used to cover music created during the Renaissance period. (For much the same reason, "Renaissance" has never been much used in philosophy, though marketing people have been introducing it recently; I've just been forced to call a chapter of a book "Renaissance Philosophy". We prefer the term "Early Modern", and it starts with Descartes.) The Renaissance is held to begin in the fourteenth century (though for many purposes that's much too early), so de Machaut *might* fit -- but I'd prefer the term "mediaeval", as it doesn't claim to say anything about the type of music, but is an honest and straightforward term of chronology.
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Супер!
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finally, some quality images.
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