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Machaut
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Ma·chaut  (mä-sh), Guillaume de 1300?-1377.
French poet and composer influential in establishing polyphonic song in France.

Machaut (French) [maʃo]
n
(Biographies / Machaut, Guillaume de (1300-1377) M, French, MUSIC: composer, WRITING: poet) Guillaume de. (gijom də) c. 1300-77, French composer and poet; a leading exponent of ars nova


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The program will contain seldom-heard medieval masterpieces by Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini and others from that era.
In the second essay, Deborah McGrady shows how Guillaume de Machaut, in his Fonteinne amoureuse, uses the material object of the poem to valorize commissions, which "straddle gift-economy and mercantilism" (21), and to upend the traditional patron-poet hierarchy.
Using seamlessly integrated music from six composers ranging from Guillaume de Machaut to Cage, Pärt and Schnittke, Taylor takes us through a process of healing and acceptance, its high point a solemn duet between Viola and Michael Trusnovec.
 
 
 
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