Guillaume de Machaut - Douce dame, tant come vivray

Douce dame, tant come vivray
by Guillaume de Machaut

performed by Gothic Voices

Guillame de Machaut (c.1300 1377) was a Medieval French poet and composer and one of the first for which there is a large amount of information regarding his life and works. This is due, in part, to the volumes of manuscripts he had produced which contain only his own works.

He spent 17 years serving in the court of Jean de Luxembourg and also served as a canon in the cathedral at Reims where he witnessed the arrival of the Black Plague and the siege of Reims by the English. Many of these events can be seen in Machauts often auto-biographical poetry, which frequently deals with aspects of courtly life and love.

Machaut's vast oeuvre of poems had a far-reaching influence, helping to codify many of fixed forms and achieving the admiration of Geoffrey Chaucer, among others. His music also had a wide influence and he is known today as the most significant composer of the ars nova, during which he produced numerous lais, ballades, rondeaux, virelais, motets, and the first Mass Ordinary by a single composer that was conceived as a unit. This mass, the Messe de Nostre Dame, marks the beginning of a long tradition of cyclic masses that came to fruition during the Renaissance and continues to the present day.

This recording is from the album "The Unknown Lover: Songs of Solage and Machaut" by the Gothic Voices.

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[Hereismarlene]

@MushroomedAnymore Don't be crazy! It's beautiful!!!

[MushroomedAnymore]

Terrible rendition! Where are the instruments. Machaut would vomit if he heard this without instruments.

[voxhunden]

It is indeed.