Guillaume de Machaut - De toutes flours (21/25) (ballade)

Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled Machault (c. 1300 - April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available.

De toutes flours (ballade)
David James, John Potter, Rogers Covey-Crump and Paul Hillier

Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer," in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the 15th century, Machaut's poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer.

Machaut was and is the most celebrated composer of the 14th century (see Medieval music). He composed in a wide range of styles and forms and his output was enormous. He was also the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova.

Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song (particularly the lai and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and ballade). Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer, and influenced composers for centuries to come.

Ballade
The term ballade was used to describe one type of musical setting of French poetry common in the 14th and 15th centuries. One of the formes fixes, the ballade typically featured a prominent upper voice, which was texted, and two lower voices which may have been vocalised or performed with instruments. Guillaume de Machaut is the most famous composer of polyphonic ballades; the style continued to be popular among composers of the Ars subtilior, though it fell out of fashion by the middle of the 15th century.

The poetic form is typically AaB, in which the B is a shorter, concluding line, or refrain (sometimes called an envoi). The two "a" sections use the same melody but with different texts.

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[ShortTailedSnails]

You can find some editions on the internet (try scribd.com, I found some Machaut there, or just google). Universities with a musical branch often have libraries where you might find Machaut editions. Buy them used on Amazon or from second-hand bookshops. Or you can always learn to read the notation of that time, get a facsimile (Machaut facsimiles are online) and read the original music. That way you can make your own mistakes instead of copying the editor's ;o)

[thecr8tor]

where i can get this music, it must be so damn dificult to find Medieval music