Guillaume Du Fay: the life and works

This volume explores the work of one of medieval music's most important figures, and in so doing presents an extended panorama of musical life in Europe at the end of the middle ages. Guillaume Du Fay rose from obscure beginnings to become the most significant composer of the fifteenth century,...

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1. Verfasser: Planchart, Alejandro Enrique 1935-2019 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung:This volume explores the work of one of medieval music's most important figures, and in so doing presents an extended panorama of musical life in Europe at the end of the middle ages. Guillaume Du Fay rose from obscure beginnings to become the most significant composer of the fifteenth century, a man courted by kings and popes, and this study of his life and career provides a detailed examination of his entire output, including a number of newly discovered works. As well as offering musical analysis, this volume investigates his close association with the Cathedral of Cambrai, and explores how, at a time when music was becoming increasingly professionalised, Du Fay forged his own identity as 'a composer'. This detailed biography will be highly valuable for those interested in the history of medieval and church music, as well as for scholars of Du Fay's musical legacy
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Volume 1 The Life. Prologue -- Origins and first years (1397-1414) -- The beginnings of a musician's career (1414-1428) -- The papal chapel and the Court of Savoy (1428-1439) -- At the Cathedral of Cambrai (1439-1450) -- The courtier (1450-1458) -- The last years (1458-1474) -- Epilogue: historical aftermath
Volume 2 The Works. Musicus / Guillermus Du Fay -- The isorhythmic and mensuration motets -- Cantilena, chant paraphrase, and new-style motets -- Music for the office -- Ordinary of the mass movements -- The mass propers -- The early masses -- The songs. Appendices : Choristers and singers at Cambrai in the long fifteenth century -- The Magistri puerorum of Cambrai in the fifteenth century -- Grammar teachers and Rectores scholarum connected to the Cathedral of Cambrai, 1400-1500 -- Guillaume Du Fay's will and its execution. Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN:9781316694398
DOI:10.1017/9781316694299