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1350s in music

overview of the events of the 1350s in music

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ48997124 ↗
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The 1350s in music involved some significant events.

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).

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.

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“1350s in music” enters the record as overview of the events of the 1350s in music. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1350s, music and overview can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1350s in music” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.