Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)
Machaut's life
Earning a living
Money in the middle ages
Machaut's residence in Reims
Machaut's epitaph
Travel in the middle ages
John of Bohemia
The calamitous fourteenth century?
Philippe de Vitry
Machaut's works
The Messe de Nostre Dame
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The purpose of Machaut's Mass
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Reims
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The creators and the process of construction
The plan and basic elements
The sculpture of the portals: making meaning in a medieval cathedral
The music of Machaut's Mass
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Kyrie
Gloria
Narrative poetry
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The Remede de Fortune
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The songs of the Remede
The illustrations of the Remede in MS C
Boethius's Consolation and the Remede
The Remede and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
Lyric poetry
Motets
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How to make a motet: M8
Songs
Machaut's manuscripts
Basic Machaut resources
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Pages in this section:
The
Messe de Nostre Dame
Introduction: Music for the Mass in fourteenth-century France
The purpose of Machaut's Mass
The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Reims
The music of Machaut's Mass
Composing the Mass
Kyrie