Guillaume de Machaut: Le Grant Retthorique

Close out the season with special guest ensemble, Les Délices. Live pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM by Anne Stone (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, one of the world’s leading authorities on French music of the 14th century).

Apres vint maistre Guillaume de Machault, le grant retthorique de nouvelle forme, qui commencha toutes tailles nouvelles, et les parfais lays d’amours. (Then came master Guillaume de Machault, the great rhetorician of the new school, who originated all manner of new forms, and perfect amorous lays.)

–Les regles de la Seconde Rettorique, early 15th century