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This new style of musical composition, entitled Ars Nova, was well accepted in France by the fourteenth century. ... Although he invented neither isorhythm nor the technique known as hocket, Guillaume de Machaut, who engaged in the religious (or perhaps more accurately, secularist) political, and intellectual movements of the fourteenth century, and who may be regarded as the quintessential Ars Nova composer, incorporated these two techniques as well as elaborations on them (such as pan-isorhythm), extremely effectively in his compositions. ... Still, what was discouraged by the church was e...
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