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The 1360s in music involved some significant events.

Events

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

Compositions

• 1360
  • January – Two motets by Guillaume de Machaut, No. 21 Veni, creator spiritus and No. 23 Inviolata genitrix, are composed in response to the Siege of Reims.
• 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.
• unknown – Guillaume de Machaut – David Hoquetus

Births

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Deaths

• 1361 –
  • ?May – Lodewijk Heyligen, Franco-Flemish music theorist.
  • 9 June – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291).

References

1. Wulf Arlt, "Machaut , Guillaume de ", 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 ", 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.

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