Music in the Medieval World
by Albert Seay
Period: Medieval
Born: 1397 in Bersele, Belgium
Died: Friday, November 27, 1474 in Cambrai,
France
Nation of Origin: Belgium/France
Major Works:
Missa l'homme armé Supremum est mortalibus bonum
Many other choral works have survived including 8 masses and 84
songs.
Other Information:
Dufay worked as chapel master in Cambrai before joining the Papal
Chapel in Rome in 1428. He worked for the Duke of Savoy in 1433 and
then joined the Papal Chapel in Florence and Bologna in 1435. In
1438 he returned to work in Savoy and then studied law at the
University of Turin. In 1445 he stopped moving and settled down in
Cambrai as canon of the cathedrals of Cambrai and Mons. Dufay
composed sacred and secular works including many fine masses and
chansons. Together with Binchois, whom he may have met in 1434, and
Dunstable, Dufay is classifed as belonging to the Burgundian School
of late Medieval/early Renaissance composition. It is unlikely,
however, that he actually worked in the Burgundian court.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Reese, Gustave, Music in the Middle Ages : With
an Introduction on the Music of Ancient Times, W.W. Norton
& Company, October 1940, ISBN: 0393097501
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient
World , W. W. Norton & Company, 1943, ASIN:
0393097188
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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