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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Online publication date:
- July 2019
- Print publication year:
- 2018
- Online ISBN:
- 9781316694398
- Subjects:
- Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music
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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.
Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Music and the Performing Arts
‘… Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works is a wonderful and important book. Anyone who has any interest in fifteenth century music will be consulting it for many decades into the future.’
Julie E. Cumming Source: Revue de musicology
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