#poet-composer

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Guillaume de Machaut- Christe, qui lux es/ Veni, creator spiritus/ Tribulatio proxima est. Another Latin motet from poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut. Working in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims with his brother Jean de Machaut, Latin music was part of the daily services. 

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Time to listen to more Guillaume de Machaut, who made me interested in Old French. This is his ballade, De Fortune Me Doi Plaindre Et Loer. Machaut, 1300- c.1377 was possibly the last great poet-composer of his age, bridging the gap between the troubadour tradition of the previous century, and the new road to polyphony. Machaut’s work often features isorhythm, in which different voices sing independent rhythms, and features dissonances that influenced composers as late as the 20th century.