An article on the beginning of Polyphonic music during the Middle Ages. You'll also find illustrations.

The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era.

Troubadours were medieval traveling poet-musicians who primarily wrote on courtly love. Many of these poets focused on sexual love, such as Moniot d'Arras, while others wrote of a religious love. Understand the purpose of these writing...

This site contains the most significant artistic output of the most important composers within each historical period.

A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

A brief paragraph outlining the life and work of Medieval composer Johannes Ciconia.

Classics For Kids provides a short biography of Early Music composer Hildegard von Bingen, born on January 1, 1098.

This site contains info on the life of Machaut and some of his famous works. Information is from the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.