List of compositions by Guillaume de Machaut
The French composer Guillaume de Machaut was the most prolific composer of his time, with surviving works encompassing many forms, the three formes fixes rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte, chanson royale, double hocket and mass genres. Most of his extant output is secular music, a notable exception being the renowned Messe de Nostre Dame. His oeuvre as a whole represents an unprecedented volume of surviving music for a single medieval composer, largely in part due to his own efforts to preserve and curate manuscripts for his music. The dominant figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music, Machaut is regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century and often seen as the century's leading European composer.
Since many titles are merely the first lines of the texts used, in different sources individual pieces may be referred to by slightly different titles. For example, R20 is known both as Douce dame and Douce dame tant qui vivray. Furthermore, some of Machaut's works employ simultaneous performance of several different texts. In such cases, the title of the work lists all texts used, starting from the top voice.
Machaut was the first composer to concentrate on self-anthologization of his works, supervising the creation of three complete-works manuscripts during his life. In the last manuscript, written c. 1370, the scribe wrote Vesci l'ordinance que G. de Machau wet qu'il ait en son livre—''Here is the order that G. de Machaut wants his book to have.''
Works are organized by genre. The numbering scheme, from the classic edition of Machaut's works by Leo Schrade, does not represent chronology, since few of Machaut's works can be reliably dated.
Ballades">Ballade (forme fixe)">Ballades
B1 S'Amours ne faitB2 Helas! tant ay dolourB3 On ne porroit penserB4 Biaute qui toutes autres pereB5 Riches d'amour et mendiansB6 Doulz amisB7 J'aim mieus languirB8 De desconfortB9 Dame, ne regardes pasB10 Ne penses pasB11 N'en fait n'en ditB12 Pour ce que tous mes chansB13 Esperance qui m'asseureB14 Je ne cuit pasB15 Se je me pleingB16 Dame, comment qu'amezB17 Sanz cuer m'en vois / Amis, dolens/ Dame, par vousB18 De petit poB19 Amours me fait desirerB20 Je sui aussi com cilzB21 Se quanque amoursB22 Il m'est avisB23 De Fortune me doy pleindreB24 Tres douce dameB25 Honte, paour, doubtanceB26 Donnez, signeursB27 Une vipere en cuerB28 Je puis trop bienB29 De triste cuer / Quant vrais amans / Certes, je diB30 Pas de torB31 De toutes floursB32 Ploures, damesB33 Nes que on porroitB34 Quant Theseus / Ne quier veoirB35 Gais et jolisB36 Se pour ce muirB37 Dame, se vous m'estesB38 Phyton, le mervilleus serpentB39 Mes esperisB40 Ma chiere dameB41 En amer a douce vie from Le Remède de Fortune B42 Dame, de qui toute ma joie from ''Le Remède de Fortune''Complainte
Tels rit au main from ''Le Remède de Fortune''Chanson royale
Joie, plaisence from ''Le Remède de Fortune''Double hocket">Hocket">Double hocket
- David Hoquetus
Lai">Lai (poetic form)">Lais
L1 Loyaute, que point ne delayL2 J'aim la flour de valourL3 Pour ce qu'on puistL4 Nuls ne doit avoirL5 Par trois raisonsL6 Amours doucementL7 Le lay des dames: Amis t'amourL8 Le lay mortel: Un mortel lay weil commencierL9 Le lay de l'ymage: Ne say comment commencierL10 Le lay de Nostre Dame: Contre ce doulz mois de mayL11 Le lay de la fonteinne: Je ne cesse de prierL12 Le lay de confort: S'onques doulereusementL13 Le lay de bonne esperance: Longuement me suiL14 Le lay de plour: Malgre fortuneL15 Le lay de la rose: Pour vivre joliementL16 Le lay de plour: Qui bien aimmeL17 Un lay de consolation: Pour ce que plus proprementL18 En demantantL19 Qui n'aroit autre deport from ''Le Remède de Fortune''Mass
- Messe de Nostre Dame
- * Kyrie
- * Gloria
- * Credo
- * Sanctus
- * Agnus Dei
- * Ite missa est