MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

Middle Ages and Renaissance

Middle Ages and Renaissance

Doulz viaire gracieus is a polyphonic song by the fourteenth-century French composer Guillaume de Machaut. This short work is an example of the fixed form known as the rondeau, and is written for three voices: a tenor against which has been set a triplem and a cantus. As only the cantus has a text, it is safe to assume that the other parts would have been instrumentally performed. Schrade catalogues it as Rondeau No. 1.

The rondeau is one of the fixed forms of the fourteenth-century France (the others are the ballade ...