1360s in music

The 1360s in music involved some significant events.

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Events

Francesco Landini playing an organ

• 1361
  • The Dauphin of France (the future Charles V) is a guest in the house of Guillaume de Machaut in Reims.[1]
  • Francesco Landini is appointed organist at the monastery of Santa Trinita in Florence.[2]
• 1362 –
  • Niccolò da Perugia and Gherardello da Firenze visit the monastery of Santa Trinita in Florence.[3]
  • The first documented use of polyphony in Brussels, at the collegiate church of Ste Gudule.[4]

Compositions

• 1360
  • January – Two motets by Guillaume de Machaut, No. 21 Veni, creator spiritus and No. 23 Inviolata genetrix, are composed in response to the Siege of Reims.[5]
• after 1360 – Guillaume de Machaut motet No. 21 "Plange, regni respublica / Tu qui gregem tuum ducis / Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge"
• 1365 – Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame had been composed by this year.
• 1369 – Johannes Vaillant's double-texted (ballade) for three voices, Dame doucement trait / Doulz amis de cuer parfait, was copied in Paris (compilatum fuit parisius) into the Chantilly Codex (fol. 26v), and thus likely was composed in that year.[6]
• unknown – Guillaume de Machaut – David Hoquetus

Births

Deaths

• 1361 –
  • ?May – Lodewijk Heyligen, Franco-Flemish music theorist.
  • 9 June – Philippe de Vitry, French composer.

References

1. Wulf Arlt, "Machaut [Machau, Machault], Guillaume de [Guillelmus de Machaudio]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
2. John Milsom, "Landini, Francesco", The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
3. Kurt von Fischer and Gianluca D’Agostino, "Niccolò da Perugia [Nicolaus de Perugia, Magister Sere Nicholaus Prepositi de Perugia, Niccolò del Proposto, Ser Nicholo del Proposto]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
4. Robert Wangermée and Henri Vanhulst, "Brussels", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
5. Kurt Markstrom, "Machaut and the Wild Beast", Acta Musicologica 61, No. 1 (January–April 1989): 12–39. Citation on 30–35.
6. Gilbert Reaney, "The Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 1047", Musica Disciplina 8 (1954): 59–113. Citations on 79, 85, and 90.