1360s in music

The 1360s in music involved some significant events.

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• 1360s in music
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Music timeline

Events

Francesco Landini playing an organ

• 1361
  • The Dauphin of France (the future Charles V) is a guest in the house of Guillaume de Machaut in Reims.^[1]
  • Francesco Landini is appointed organist at the monastery of Santa Trinita in Florence.^[2]
• 1362 –
  • Niccolò da Perugia and Gherardello da Firenze visit the monastery of Santa Trinita in Florence.^[3]
  • The first documented use of polyphony in Brussels, at the collegiate church of Ste Gudule.^[4]

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.^[5]
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^[6]
• unknown – Guillaume de Machaut – David Hoquetus^{[citation needed]}

Births

Deaths

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