Johannes Tinctoris (jan 1, 1435 – jan 1, 1511)
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Composer and music theorist "of encyclopedic ambition". "His dozen treatisesattempt to encompass all of contemporary music, its practices, practitioners, and products alike. Tinctoris drew his examples from the composers whose works are found in sources throughout Europe. He called Dunstable the fountainhead of contemporary music... pride of place went to Johannes Ockeghem and Antoine Busnoys, who in their joint preeminence have become forever associated together in musical history (like Leonin and Perotin or Du Fay and Binchois).Denoted Mass as the highest musical genre of the day, followed by the Motet, and finally the vernacular chanson.
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jan 1, 1435
jan 1, 1511
~ 76 years