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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MACHAUT

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PRONUNCIATION OF MACHAUT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MACHAUT

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Machaut is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MACHAUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut was a medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available. According to Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer". Well into the 15th century, Machaut's poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer. Machaut composed in a wide range of styles and forms. He is a part of the musical movement known as the ars nova. Machaut helped develop the motet and secular song forms. Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer.

Definition of Machaut in the English dictionary

The definition of Machaut in the dictionary is Guillaume de. c. 1300–77, French composer and poet; a leading exponent of ars nova.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MACHAUT

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Synonyms and antonyms of Machaut in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Machaut» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MACHAUT

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马肖
1,325 millions of speakers

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Machaut
570 millions of speakers

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Machaut
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Machaut
380 millions of speakers
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Machaut
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Машо
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut
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マショー
130 millions of speakers

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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut- இன்
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Machaut
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Machaut
70 millions of speakers

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Machaut
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Machaut
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Машо
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Machaut
30 millions of speakers
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Machaut
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Trends of use of Machaut

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MACHAUT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MACHAUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Machaut

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MACHAUT»

Discover the use of Machaut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Machaut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His ...
" The meaning of his music is brought to light through study of its liturgical and ecclesiastical context in Reims, of the books and poetry found in the cathedral library, and of the royal associations of the church.
Anne Walters Robertson, 2002
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Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research
Concerning the motets, Earp (1983, 328; 1989, 495) discusses the case of Degentis vita / Cum vix artidici, an anonymous motet related to Machaut's Qui es / Ha! Fortune (M8). Other motets that are structurally interrelated—although often it is ...
Lawrence Earp, 2013
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Machaut's Music: New Interpretations
Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.
Elizabeth Eva Leach, 2003
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A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut
This collection provides a comprehensive reading of Machaut’s literary and musical corpus that privileges his engagement with contemporary political, ethical, and aesthetic concerns of late medieval culture as well as his reception by ...
Deborah McGrady, Jennifer Bain, 2012
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Machaut's Mass: An Introduction
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson has now prepared a much-needed modern performing edition of this work, published by OUP's music department.
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, 1992
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Citation and Allusion in the Lays of Guillaume de Machaut
Since the fifteenth century, Guillaume de Machaut's lays have been described as the finest examples of this most complicated musical and poetic form.
Benjamin L. Albritton, 2009
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Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late ...
In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely hybrid form: sixty-three poems and ten songs invite an oral performance, ...
Deborah L. McGrady, 2012
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Guillaume de Machaut
"At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages.
Elizabeth Eva Leach, 2011
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La prise d'Alixandre:
Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d'Alexandrie (or Capture of Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69).
Guillaume (de Machaut), Janet Shirley, Peter W. Edbury, 2001
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Poetry and Music in Medieval France: From Jean Renart to ...
In this way, Butterfield sheds new light on the development of song and narrative genres. The volume is well illustrated to demonstrate the rich visual culture of medieval French writing.
Ardis Butterfield, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MACHAUT»

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Review: Crossing Whitman with Estonia
60" (recited, not sung), all sandwiched in a 21st-century conceptual update of medieval-Renaissance polyphony - neo-Machaut? - in which ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
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Seth Lerer on Voices from the English Past
Guillaume de Machaut called Chaucer “grant translateur”, and it would not be unfair to say that just about everything Chaucer and his ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
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Drummer Jesse Nicholas Quebbeman-Turley
Guillaume de Machaut, Jim Black, Dirty Projectors, Philip Glass and Christian Asplund. What are the best venues to play at around Salt Lake ... «Salt Lake City Weekly, Jun 15»
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Review: John Zorn's Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth
“The Remedy of Fortune” (2015) takes its inspiration from a poem by the 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut. Its six tableaus depict ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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Timeline: Ars Nova Versus Ars Antiqua
One of the most prominent composers of the Ars Nova style was Guillame De Machaut, another French poet and composer who was a little ... «Vermont Public Radio, May 15»
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Review: Kate Soper's Songs of Sirens and Female Identity
In the ambling lines of Machaut's rondeau “Doulz viaire gracieus,” arranged by Ms. Soper for flute, violin and voice, the lovelorn words ... «New York Times, May 15»
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Classical Notes
Laughing Bird, made up of some of Philadelphia's more enterprising freelancers, has a repertoire stretching at least from Machaut to ... «Philly.com, May 15»
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Classical & Opera Listings for May 8-14
Kate Soper (Monday) The works of this crafty composer and singer — alternately witty and poignant — appear alongside those of Machaut, ... «New York Times, May 15»
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Liszt is dead, long live the piano recital
The opening moves from Machaut to Kurtág to Stockhausen and Messiaen; the second opens with Purcell and dwells on Schumann and Liszt ... «Irish Times, May 15»
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Three faculty members elected to American Philosophical Society
... Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works, which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society. «UChicago News, May 15»

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