Guillaume Du Fay (jan 1, 1397 – jan 1, 1474)

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a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. He was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the leading composers in Europe in the mid-15th century. His uniquely contrapuntal and complex motet "Nuper rosarum flores" demonstrates the influential exchange of musical ideas among artists around the world during the early Renaissance period

Du Fay's composition style is best exemplified in Nuper Rosarum Flores.

Du Fay and Fauxbourdon
1. Continental composers responded immediately to the English style, as
demonstrated by Du Fay’s Vos qui secuti estis me.
a. This work emphasizes sixths.
b. A rubric tells the performer that it is possible to make this a three-part
piece by adding a voice singing the uppermost part down a fourth.
c. The result is called fauxbourdon (for more on this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauxbourdon#/media/File:Avemarisstella.png).

Du Fay and Binchois were the two leading song composers of the first half of
fifteenth century.
2. Du Fay’s career took him to many places.
a. He wrote songs in all the formes fixes.
b. He based a lot of his sacred music on secular tenors.

Du Fay also wrote a Missa L’Homme armé, and his is the oldest and most
distinguished

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