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Guillaume Dufay
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Guillaume Dufay
Musical Legacy
- Du Fay during his life was considered a leading composer of the current era. He is said to be the most important composer of the 15th century.
- Dufay was successful at incorporating new styles into preexisting compositional tendencies.
- Although, it was a period of compositional stylistic stability where he was able to combine different styles of music from the new and old ages.
- Dufay would inject his blend of chromaticism into previously established styles of music.
- His name is consistently mentioned throughout documented music history throughout the next several centuries.
Early Career
Musical Style
Background Information
- Du Fay composed in almost all genres of polyphonic music available in the 15th century.
- He composed songs in formed fixes, plainchant settings, freely-composed settings, and cantos firmus compositions incorporated into motets, or settings of an Ordinary Mass.
- Du Fay commonly would start a compositions with a cantus-tenor contrapuntal line, which would then be build on with one or two additional voices.
- The cornerstones of Du Fay's style consists of small motivic cells that reveled a greater melodic writing, a well defined contrapuntal structure with defined cadence points that relate to the text the music is based off of, and a blend of fast and slow rhythmic structure that eventually becomes homogeneous.
- After his studies he moved to Bologna, Italy from March 1426 to August 1428, before moving to Rome in October of 1429 after the city revolted.
- He later moved to Savoy, a region in the Alps between France and Italy where he worked for Duke Amadeus VIII.
Later Career
- Guillaume Dufay was a French composer and theorist.
- He was known as the leading composer of his era. His music was performed all over Europe where polyphony was practiced.
- He was born in the town of Bersele near Brussels, Belgium around August 5th, 1397 and died on November 24th, 1474.
- Later he moved back to Cambrai in 1436. He would consistently move between Cambrai and Savoy to work. During his last period in Cambrai it is inferred that his work Missa 'L'homme arme' was written between 1459 and 1461.
Early Life
- He was born in the town of Bersele near Brussels, Belgium around August 5th, 1397 and died on November 24th, 1474.
- The illegitimate son of an unknown priest and a single woman Marie Du Fayt. Later in life he changed his name to Du Fay while living in Italy.
- Dufay is first document to have been a choirboy at Cambrai Cathedral in 1409. Leaders of the Cathedral then realized Dufay's musical gifts and made him a copy of Alexandre de Villediu's Doctrinale in 1411.
- His studies of music and grammar followed a similar curriculum to French Cathedral schools.
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