Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

constitute it burst into a multitude of simultaneous songs. Dante is reminded of the sunset, when the ...

CHAPTER 9 Machaut and His Progeny MACHAUT’S SONGS AND MASS; MUSIC AT THE PAPAL COURT OF AVIGNON; ARS SUBTILIOR ...

making him, along with the much less prolific Adam de la Halle, one of the earliest musical literati ...

Nova techniques, which had been developed specifically to serve the purposes of the motet genre, were “bo ...

EX. 9-2 Guillaume de Machaut, Pourquoy me bat mes maris, tenor There is good reason to suspect that even ...

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Machaut’s own virelais are very similar. Most of them are monophonic, presumably because of the three main ...

composition that is in duple time on all levels of mensuration. The purposely varied detail-work discloses ...

En mon cuer (“In my heart,” Ex. 9-5), for example, is found as a two-voice composition in all the composer ...

whom he is pursuing as courtly lover. Along with the letters there are some lyric poems addressed by M ...

triads; and the most characteristic place to observe this is, again, at cadences. A typical three-voice cadence ...

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Although they occupy the exact same pitch space, however, the tenor and contratenor are not equivalent part ...

piece without it), became willy-nilly the most “decorative” one—at once liveliest in rhythm (replete with ...

Of all the fixed forms, the ballade in three stanzas was for Machaut and his followers the noblest and most exalted— ...

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Mode, in this style, still means more than a scale and a final. It is still to some extent a ...

EX. 9-9 Cunctipotens genitor from Faenza Codex The arrangement of Machaut’s De toutes flours follows the same id ...

MACHAUT’S MASS AND ITS BACKGROUND By a curious twist of fate, Guillaume de Machaut—best known in his day a ...

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