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POLYPHONIC SONGS IN THE GARDEN OF LOVE – Singing polite, at the time of the Black Plague

When a pandemic changes the musical landscape In the motets of a courteous setting, he masterfully used a compositional practice based on the elaboration of the melodic and rhythmic component. Before dying in Reims in 1377, the city where he was born around 1300, a musician and poet Guillaume de Machault, in the service of the King of Bohemia John …

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