Music 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Guillaume Du Fay, Gilles Binchois, Cantus Firmus
17 Mar 2016
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Lecture 7: du fay and binchois: guillaume du fay and gilles de binche dit binchois (gilles de binche is his real name, they start a series of generations. Johannes tinctoris great source of information on the composers: no composition written over forty year ago is thought by the learned to be worthy of performance, johannes ockeghem, johannes regis, antoine busnoys, firmin caron, and. Guillaume faugaus they had as predecessors/teachers john dunstaple, gilles. Uses a given melody as the framework for every moment. But ockeghem"s mass take as its cantus firmus a melody from a previously composed three-part song. He takes the tenor, not the top line the tenor is slower moving, not the high de plus en plus . To create variety, ockeghem follows model of earlier composers. Certain section of music are written for only two or three voice (reduced scoring) Sometimes one pair of voices is set against another pair.
