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FISHER 1
FRED FISHER
Professor Nancy Barlar
Introduction to Music
8 November 2003
The Life of Guillaume de Machaut
Born in the vicinity of Rheims in Champagne around the year 1300, Guillaume de Machaut was the most famous composer of the middle Ages. ...
Even though France and England was engaged in the disastrous Hundred Years’ War, ironically this was also a time of great achievement in music. ...
In the fourteenth century music was an important part of life, existing for beauty and to enhance life. Music added splendor to everyday routine, be it religion, chivalry or love. ... He was one of the earliest known users of syncopated rhythm in both his religious and secular music. One of the first pieces of purely instrumental music in modern western times was Machaut’s “Hoquetus David” (Passagen). ...
Machaut’s polyphonic music reflects the interest that composers had in building complex structures based on the repetition and manipulation of borrowed melodies. ... His secular music carries on the musical and textual traditions of the troubadours and trouveres (Levarie, 133).
Although Machaut wrote music for more than one hundred of his French poems, and for six motets in Latin, he is best known for his “Mass of Norte Dame” (McComb).
Approximate Word count = 942
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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