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The French musician Adam de la Halle is identified among these minstrels, [2] along with twenty-six harpists, thirteen fiddlers (including Tomasin, the Prince of Wales's own fiddler, Nicholas de Caumbray, vidulator to Philip IV of France, and the Englishman Le Roy Druet, called "King of the Minstrels"), three gigatores (rebec players) from ...
Stylistically, the music of the ars nova differed from the preceding era in several ways. Developments in notation allowed notes to be written with greater rhythmic independence, shunning the limitations of the rhythmic modes which prevailed in the thirteenth century; secular music acquired much of the polyphonic sophistication previously found only in sacred music; and new techniques and ...
date unknown – Richart de Fournival, French trouvère (d. 1260) 1216 date unknown – Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, musician and theorist (d. 1296) 1217 date unknown – John I, Duke of Brittany, French trouvère (d. 1286) 1221 23 November – Alfonso X of Castile, Spanish monarch, poet, and composer (d. 1284) 1291
Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡi'jom də ma'ʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.
The popularity of French music in the rest of Europe declined slightly, yet the popular chanson and the old motet were further developed during this time. The epicenter of French music moved from Paris to Burgundy, as it followed the Burgundian School of composers. During the Baroque period, music was simplified and restricted due to Calvinist ...
Ars subtilior (Latin for 'subtler art') 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. [1]
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377) Albéric Magnard (1865–1914) Jean-Yves Malmasson (born 1963) Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 1564) Marin Marais (1656–1728) Louis Marchand (1669–1732) Victor Massé (1822–1884) Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Paule Maurice (1910–1967) Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782–1849) Jules Mazellier (1879 ...
Although colloquially the term ars antiqua is used more loosely to mean all European music of the 13th century, and from slightly before. The term ars antiqua is used in opposition to ars nova (meaning "new art", "new technique" or "new style"). The transition from ars antiqua into ars nova is not clearly defined, recent interpretation has ...