Answer:
B: Ars Nova
Explanation:
The musical movement known as Ars Nova, comes in contrast to Ars Antiqua, and is named after the French poet Philippe de Vitry. Although music has gained greater rhythmic flexibility, and polyphony, the counterpoint, begins to unravel, it still has phraseological terminations with incomplete chords formed only of Thursdays, Wednesdays, and Octaves.
Vitry expressed Ars Nova very well, but it was the Frenchman from the Champaign region: Guillaume de Machaut.
The place and year of his birth are not known for sure, but it was probably in the town of Machaut around 1300.
Due to his reputation as an excellent poet and musician, he was hired at a young age by John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia, from whom he received holy orders serving as chaplain and personal secretary of the king, accompanying him on his numerous trips around Europe.
His musical work is divided into profane and sacred pieces, and among the profane are the styles of compositions known today as songs, virilai and cantilenas, ballades, and roundeau. Machaut ballads are the earliest examples of this genre, making it likely that whether or not Machaut invented the form did much to direct it.
In the sacred his main work is "The Mass of Notre Dame".
