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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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years in Savoy, but then in 1458 returned to Cambrai, where he spent the rest of his life. In this last period he received many visitors, including Tinctoris, Ockeghem and Busnoys. Loyset Compère (c. 1445–1518) may also have been among them. His song En triumphant (‘In Triumph’) may have been written during this time, on the ...

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easily distinguishable from that of Dunstaple. Recommended Recording: Missa Alma redemptoris mater, Motets, Hilliard Ensemble (dir) Paul Hillier (Virgin/Erato) Introduction | Medieval Era | Classical Personalities | Johannes Tinctoris | Medieval Era | Classical ...

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such as Guido of Arezzo, Johannes de Garlandia (fl. c. 1240), as well as people such as Vitry – and something is known of their lives. Vitry and Johannes Tinctoris (1430–after 1511), for instance, were composers; the majority must also have been teachers. All of them, however, documented ideas about musical composition and notation, either writing ...

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Classical ideals began to emerge and take shape in musical treatises in the late fifteenth century. One of the most famous exponents of this was Johannes Tinctoris (1430–after 1511), who, in his writings, claimed that music had been reborn in the works of John Dunstaple (c. 1390–1453) and his followers around 1440. Also central to Renaissance thinking about music ...