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
A 14th-century ballade by Guillaume de Machaut set up György Ligeti’s hazy, briery “Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” from 1982.
From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2020
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
“Ars Nova” refers to the stylistic movement embodied by Machaut that brought greater expressivity and daring into medieval music.
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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