Guillaume de Machaut
(c. 1300 – 1377)A French poet and composer, he wrote the Notre-Dame Mass, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer.
la Messe de Nostre Dame / Notre-Dame Mass
It consists of 5 movements: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, followed by the dismissal Ite, missa est.
Machaut was the first to write music in 4 parts/voices.
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His list of compositions represents both sacred and secular vocal music of the French new style (ars nova). Many of his secular songs dealt with courtly love.
Circa 1363, he wrote a collection of music, letters, and poetry in his autobiographical book, Le voir dit.
He was one of the first to set the typical secular poetic forms of his days: ballade, rondeau, and virelai.
(ballade B19) Amours me fait désirer / Love makes me desire
(rondeau R18) Puis qu'en oubi / Then in oblivion
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