1360s in music

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

Deaths

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

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