Guillaume de Machaut
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Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death
Machaut (right) receiving Nature and three of her children, from an illuminated Parisian manuscript of the 1350s
An illumination in a manuscript of Machaut's poem Le remède de fortune showing an outdoors dancing scene
Illumination of Machaut writing Le Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse
Ars subtilior
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Ars subtilior is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity, centered on Paris, Avignon in southern France, and also in northern Spain at the end of the fourteenth century. Th
Guillaume de Machaut
…style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the ars nova from the subsequent ars subtilior movement. Regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century, he is often seen as the century's leading European composer…
A chanson about love, Belle, bonne, sage, by Baude Cordier, is in a heart shape, with red notes indicating rhythmic alterations.