MEDIEVAL COMPOSERS

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN

• 1098 - 1179
• German nun
• Known for visions and prophecies

MUSIC CHARACTERISTICS

• Primarily syllabic hymns and melismatic solos
• Uncharacteristically melodic
• Wide range of pitches and note leaps
• Gave meaning to words through music
• Musical play ORDO VIRTUTUM

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LEONIN & PEROTIN

• Notre Dame cathedral
• Drastically changed music
• Followed thought of ARS ANTIQUA

MUSIC CHARACTERISTICS

• First significant polyphonic music
• Made multi-part chant called organum
• First complete cycle for chants
• MAGNUS LIBER ORGANI

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GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT

• French composer
• 1300 - 1377
• Started in church
• Worked for French court

MUSIC CHARACTERISTICS

• Talented and diverse
• Wrote sacred and secular styles
• Poet who wrote about love
• Influenced Geoffrey Chaucer

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GUILLAUME DUFAY

• 1400 - 1474
• Late Medieval to Renaissance
• Lived all over, bringing wordliness

MUSIC CHARACTERISTICS

• Calm, soothing, with direction amd distinction
• Opposite Medieval music, which was harsh
• Explored four voice vocal texture
• Transitioned into Renaissance era

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PHILLIPE DE VITRY

• 1291 - 1361
• Author of ARS NOVA
• Music theory text
• Wanted to expand rhythmic resources
• New notation system

MUSIC CHARACTERISTICS

• First used binary rhythm
• Known for motets
• Wrote of political issues, not love

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