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Guillaume Du Fay (1 janv. 1397 – 1 janv. 1474)

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Prolific song-writer and master of fauxbourdon.

Composed motets, secular songs in all the forme fixes, mases. Used his ballade "Se la face ay pale" as a cantus firmus for is best-known Mass. Du Fay was a pioneer in basing sacred music on secular tenors, consecrating the secular. Famous for chant paraphrase, where he embellished a chant in an extremely decorative way.

Pieces: "Nuper rosarum flores" (Motet); Mass "Se la face ay pale"; Fauxbourdon on "Ave maris stella"

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1 janv. 1397
1 janv. 1474
~ 77 years
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