Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) was the greatest French composer of his century, the creator of the first complete polyphonic Mass setting, and a renowned poet. Guillaume de Machaut was born in the village of Machault in Champagne, near Reims. He...

Guillaume de Machaut was an innovative and extremely influential figure in French poetry and music, pioneering new genres and techniques while revitalizing old ones. He stands as the key transitional figure in forging the new (or "second") rhetoric in...

(ca. 1300–1377). The greatest French poet and composer of the 14th century. Machaut’s narrative dits set a style in poetry that would predominate in France and England through the 15th century; his lyrics, many set to music, established and...

Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled Machault, (c. 1300 – April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer. Guilllaume de Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer," in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson....

Guillaume de Machaut. Messe de Nostre Dame [for] Mixed Voices. Edited by Lucy E. Gross. New York: C. F. Peters, c1998. Note, 1 p.; score, 36 p.; performance notes, p. i-x. Edition Peters No. 67574. $10.95.] The Messe de Nostre Dame of...

Guillaume de Machaut's 'Voir dit' was originally accepted as a narrative of Machaut's love affair with Peronne d'Armentieres and has recently been considered a mediation on love. However, the poem better lends itself to an ironic and humorous interpretation because of the contrasts made...

Recently, over at B.A.M., William Forsythe in his new piece, Three Atmospheric Studies, made his position clear: He’s anti-war. Study I involves 15 or so dancers in street clothes, brawling. They brawl and brawl (very effectively) until one of them is hauled away—you see, this...

In the following essay, Kelly analyzes Machaut's conception of love, observing that the poet's meticulous definition of love draws from classical and medieval literature.

In the following excerpt, Attwood analyzes Machaut's principal works concluding that he, more than any other poet of his time, reveals his poetic ego as a purely textual, literary construct.

In the following essay, Calin discusses Le Livre du Voir-Dit, Machaut's principal work, concluding that the ultimate reality implied by the poet's text is the reality of artistic creation itself.