Lifetime of Machaut (1 янв 1300 г. – 1 янв 1377 г.)
Описание:
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
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Дата:
1 янв 1300 г.
1 янв 1377 г.
~ 77 years