A friend lend me a CD with music of someone called Guillem de Machaut :"Messe de Notre Damme". He was a composer of the 14th century, and I think it's really worth hearing. As he explained me, there was not a strict music theory or rules in the 14th siecle, and this is vocal music where the composer added freely different voices.

The result is remarkable: the pieces have an unique character due to the absence of rules. Sometimes it seems music for terror fims, sometimes is more like strangely beautiful, and in some seconds the ambience makes drastic changes.

It's religious music and they sing in latin, you may find the lyrics in the web (or the booklet)...

I'd really recommend it, and if you know some guys similar to this Guillaume (or some nice vocal music you like), I would also like you to tell me about it.

Very good Muramasa. I checked out that piece on youtube and liked it a lot. I'm into that Medieval stuff and have several works from those early composers.

I also read a lot of Medieval and Dark Ages history, love Cathedrals and Gothic Architecture. Am I weird....... well maybe yeah!! :P

Wasn't too keen on that one tbh

Lovely music. If your looking for more of that type of music, check out Palestrina and Josquin des Prez, both came after Machaut. You can hear how the music evolved into Baroque and Classical.

Also check out Carlo Gesualdo (and definietely read his bio, it's pretty crazy. He murdered his wife!)

BTW I wouldn't say they didn't have rules, they definiteley had them, they were just different from what we use today.

Probably the biggest difference is that the major/minor system hadn't evolved yet, it was mostly modal. They also had a weird way of dealing with rhythm.