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rhythmic mode īqāʿāt

Key People

Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).

Guillaume de Machaut

French poet and musician

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John Dunstable

English composer

Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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