Guillaume Du Fay (1 gen 1397 anni – 1 gen 1474 anni)
Descrizione:
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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Data:
1 gen 1397 anni
1 gen 1474 anni
~ 77 years