More Medieval Monday... Guillaume de Machaut According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Guillaume de Machaut, (born c. 1300, Machault, Fr.—died 1377, Reims), was a French poet and musician, greatly admired by contemporaries as a master of French versification and regarded as one of the leading French composers of the Ars Nova musical style of the 14th century. It is on his shorter poems and his musical compositions that his reputation rests. He was the last great poet in France to think of the lyric and its musical setting as a single entity. youtube/watch?v=1Y1O-BcZQwY
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