a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance, and an early member of the Venetian School. He was one of the earliest composers of the ricercar, the predecessor to the fugue, and he was also a skilled composer of chansons.
a. Buus was an organist at St. Mark’s. b. He contributed the “ricercare”—keyboard pieces that followed the same compositional aesthetics as Willaert’s motets.