Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century mass may evoke blues and jazz for some listeners. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) How to ...

The juxtaposition of the two composers just named at the very start is puzzling to begin with (all the more so since the opening Ave Maria, though credited to Jacobus Gallus, is in fact the four-voice ...

In the penultimate instalment of their Machaut series, The Orlando Consort tackle a pinnacle of the composer’s output, the Lay de la fonteinne, a reflection on the Virgin Mary to whom Machaut speaks ...

This week’s Continuum features music by the 14th century French composer Guillaume de Machaut, known as the last great poet who was also a composer. His music for the Mass of Notre Dame represents the ...

The music of the two most important known medieval composers are featured on this Continuum. They are Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) and Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474). Machaut is the first known ...