Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut stands at the center of 14th-century French poetry and music. His songs, motets, and the Messe de Nostre Dame belong to the late Medieval world of courtly form, rhythmic complexity, and refined text setting. Machaut’s work helped define the Ars nova and remains one of the great bodies of early European music.

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