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(Fe-lep’ de Ve-tre’) 1291–1361 French theorist and composer As a result of his treatise Ars nova (c. 1322) Philippe de Vitry was the most musically influential figure of his day. It described new developments in mensural notation, allowing composers more rhythmic flexibility and therefore compositional variety. Unfortunately, no songs known to be by Vitry have survived, but a number ...

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(22), lais (19) and one each of the old forms complainte and chanson royal. Little is known of other secular music immediately before and during Machaut’s time: no songs by Vitry – perhaps his most likely model – appear to survive. So Machaut is always seen as an innovator. Early Polyphony The development of Machaut’s style and com­positional practice is clear. ...

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a musician of real inspiration. Recommended Recording: Missa L’Homme armé, Missa Sine nomine, Clerks’ Group (dir) Edward Wickham (Cyprès) Introduction | Medieval Era | Classical Personalities | Philippe de Vitry | Medieval Era | Classical ...

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‘Machaut himself declared that true song and poetry could come only from the heart.’ Donald Grout and Claude V. Palisca Leading Exponents Hildegard of Bingen Leonin Perotin Philippe de Vitry Guillaume de Machaut Francesco Landini Johannes Ciconia John Dunstable Guillaume Du Fay Gilles Binchois Medieval Style Unaccompanied chanted recitations of the liturgy in Latin, with one syllable extended across ...

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‘Medieval’ as a concept is very hard to define, and the period itself is just as difficult to delineate. It was a term invented by Renaissance writers who wished to make a distinction between their modernity and what had gone before. Although the onset of the Renaissance is often taken to be around the beginning of the fourteenth century, ...

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which had all the trappings of a secular court. A manuscript now held in nearby Apt records some of the sacred music heard there, including works by Philippe de Vitry (1291–1361), while some of the secular music in the Chantilly Manuscript can also be linked to the schismatic court. The Schism was exacer­bated by the outcome of the Council of ...

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Winchester Troper: one of the earliest sources of polyphony, an English manuscript dating from the early eleventh century and originally used in Winchester; now in Cambridge. Montpellier Codex: an important source of motets, compiled during the thirteenth century; now in the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Montpellier. Roman de Fauvel: a satirical poem about the church written in the early fourteenth ...

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century, a greater range of forms was beginning to emerge, probably with origins in unwritten traditions such as dance music. The author of a fifteenth-century treatise wrote that Vitry ‘found [founded] the manner of motets, ballades, lais and simple rondeaux’, but none of his songs survives. However, Machaut, his younger contemporary, wrote well over ...