Lifetime of Machaut (1 Jan 1300 Jahr – 1 Jan 1377 Jahr)
Beschreibung:
Greatest French poet/composer of the 14th C.
Emerged from a bourgeois background, educated in Reims (important center of French Catholicism)
Became secretary to John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia at the age of 23; accompanied him on many military and diplomatic expeditions
In 1346, John was killed in battle
Many of his poems took the form of a dit, an allegorical story that referred to the nobility that Machaut knew (up to 9,000 lines)
Mass of Notre Dame is the first complete polyphonic setting of the entire Mass Ordinary by a single composer
Uses four voices throughout: tenor, contratenor (against the tenor), motetus, and triplum
In the Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, he uses isorhythm = a practice in which a rhythmic pattern repeats independently of its pitches
Known as a talea in Machaut’s day
Imposed on tenor voice over an entire section or composition
Color = sequence of pitches that repeats independently of the rhythm
Intricacy of Mass achieved by overlapping talea and color
Zugefügt zum Band der Zeit:
Datum:
1 Jan 1300 Jahr
1 Jan 1377 Jahr
~ 77 years
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