Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300 – 1377), was a French poet and composer of the late Medieval era. He was the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova, and was especially influential in the development of motets and secular song (chanson).

References and further reading

• Article "Guillaume de Machaut," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1561591742
• Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. ISBN 0393090906
• Harold Gleason and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, Indiana.