How cannot you be fascinated by those mysterious sonorities? I love Machaut's Messe, it's practically where the modern conception of large-scale, multi-movement work has born.

Thank you very much! In this way is very easy to understand, very clear.

Seth!! I just randomly stumbled upon this video while studying and found it super helpful! I couldn't believe who had posted it haha. Thanks for making this, it's great!

by far the clearest explanation i’ve found on this. thanks!

This was very helpful thank you!

Thank you so so much. So clear and concise, thank you!!!!

Thanks!!!! Super clear to understand! 😊😊

Thank so much!!! finally I got it.

Thank you for this! :D

Thank you!!! Will try this on my students.

Very exquisite 😫👌

Excellent demonstration! "Isorhythm was a way of giving unity to long compositions which had no other effective means of formal organization. True, the interlocked repetitions of color and talea, extending over long stretches of the music, might be anything but obvious to the ear. Yet the isorhythmic structure, even if not immediately perceived, does have the effect of imposing a coherent form on the entire piece; and the very fact of the structure's being concealed (of its existing, as it were, at least partially in the realm of abstraction and contemplation rather than as something capable of being fully grasped by the sense of hearing) would have pleased a medieval musician." A History of Western Music, Donald J. Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, Fourth Edition, Norton, P. 144.

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A great visualization. But Machaut was a master of lyrical song writing. Singing his music shouldn’t sound like groaning!