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(An-twan’ Bün-wa’) c. 1435–92 French composer Busnoys was a younger contemporary of Ockeghem and worked alongside him in Tours in the early 1460s, when he may already have been serving the future Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy in an unofficial capacity. His association with the Burgundian court probably continued after Charles’s death in 1477, though evidence for this is ...

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You have Sorrow in your Arrows’, 1460). Recommended Recording: Mon souverain desir: Chansons, Binchois Ensemble (dir) Dominique Vellard (Virgin Veritas) Introduction | Medieval Era | Classical Personalities | Antoine Busnoys | Medieval Era | Classical ...

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(Ge-yom’ Düfa’) c. 1397–1474 French composer Du Fay is regarded as the leading musical figure of his generation, and his reputation in his own time is emphasized by his employment at many of the most important musical centres in Europe. He grew up in Cambrai, where his skills were recognized early by the ecclesiastical authorities, and in his late ...

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(Yo-an’-nes Tink’-tôr-is) 1430–after 1511 French theorist Tinctoris attended university at Orléans and worked for most of his adult life at the Aragonese court in Naples. There he produced the most authoritative body of theoretical writing on music of his time. He was familiar with current musical practices, and dedicated one of his treatises to his contemporaries Ockeghem and Busnoys. His surviving ...

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do not show the influence of Italian music, unlike those of Isaac. Instead, he preserved and developed the Franco-Flemish style long cultivated by Burgundian composers such as Antoine Busnoys (c. 1435–92) and Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–60). Travelling extensively with the court, he passed this style on to other musicians, especially Spaniards like Juan de Peñalosa (c. 1515–79) ...

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the courts of the Low Countries (e.g., Lille, Bruges and Brussels). The dukes had the finest chapel of their age, employing musicians such as Binchois and Busnoys and, later Alexander Agricola (c. 1446–1506); the Burgundian tradition merged with that of the Spanish court to produce one of the most important institutions of the Renaissance. Styles & ...

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tune – often taken from a secular song – is called a cantus firmus (‘fixed melody’). One of the most famous examples is ‘L’homme armé’: Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Josquin and Obrecht were among the earliest composers to write a Missa L’homme armé, a competitive tradition that continued in the sixteenth century. Some of the most prolific composers of ...

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the tune (in the middle of the texture) at half speed and back-to-front, and shortly afterwards it appears at normal speed the right way round. Younger composers such as Busnoys and Josquin des Prez (c. 1440–1521) responded to these tricks in various ways, and still others joined in, creating ever more contrived and sometimes witty devices. The list ...