1330s in music

The 1330s in music included several notable events and developments.

Events

• 1330
• Juan Ruiz, the Arcipreste de Hita, writes the first version of his El libro de buen amor, which describes many musical practices in Spain.
• 1334
• February – Merlin, a ' at the court of Edward III was given leave and a grant towards his expenses to go to minstrel schools on the Continent, probably at Mechelen, Ypres, or Deventer, where there were celebrated schools for fiddlers.
• 1337
• exact date unknown – Pedro IV of Aragon summons to his court the musicians Ali Eziqua and Çahat Mascum, his favourite players of the rebec and exabeba.
• 1338
• 28 January (by modern reckoning; 1337 by ecclesiastical usage of the time) – Guillaume de Machaut takes up a canonicate in Reims, "per procuratiorem" (i.e., by proxy).