1350s in music
The 1350s in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- 1353 – Ibn Battuta visits the Mali Empire and writes an account of his journey that includes descriptions of the music he heard there, and of several instruments including the ngoni and balafon (a type of xylophone).[1]
Compositions
- 1356 – Following the Battle of Crécy, Guillaume de Machaut composes his Lai 24, En demantant et lamentant, lamenting the capture by Edward, the Black Prince of King Jean II and his son Philippe.[2]
Births
References
- Lucy Durán and Aurelia W. Hartenberger, "Nkoni [ngoni]", Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments/Grove Music Online, edited by Deane L. Root, Oxford Music online (22 September 2015); K.A. Gourlay and Lucy Durán, "Balo [bala, balafou, balafon]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers); Roderic C. Knight, "Kora", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers)
- Kurt Markstrom, "Machaut and the Wild Beast", Acta Musicologica 61, No. 1 (January–April 1989): 12–39. Citation on 30.
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