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Dufay

Guillaume Dufay
Dates
1400–1474
Era
Renaissance (1400–1600)
Recognition
essential
Wikipedia

Where to start with Dufay

Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles
  1. Vocal
    Missa L'Homme armé
  2. Vocal
    Missa Se la face ay pale
  3. Vocal
    Nuper rosarum flores,
  4. Vocal
    Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys
  5. Vocal
    Agnus Dei
  6. Vocal
    Anima mea liquefacta est
  7. Vocal
    Apostolo glorioso
  8. Vocal
    Aurea luce et decore roseo
  9. Vocal
    Ave Regina caelorum
  10. Vocal
    Ave maris stella
  11. Vocal
    Ave virgo que de celis
  12. Vocal
    Balsamus et munda cera
  13. Vocal
    Belle, que vous ay je meffait
  14. Vocal
    Belle, veulliés moy retenir
  15. Vocal
    Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine

Listening guide

Hand-curated paths into Dufay's catalogue
  1. Nuper rosarum flores
    motet for the consecration of Florence Cathedral
  2. L\’homme armé Mass
  3. Ave Regina coelorum
  4. Se la face ay pale (ballade)
  5. Vergene bella

Most Acclaimed

  1. Missa L\’homme armé
  2. Nuper rosarum flores
  3. Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
  4. Missa Se la face ay pale
  5. Supremum est mortalibus bonum

Most Weird

  1. Nuper rosarum flores
    scholars have argued its structure mirrors the mathematical proportions of Brunelleschi’s dome
  2. Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae
    lament on the fall of Constantinople — written in 1454
  3. Ce moys de may
    secular song — joyful and completely different from his sacred music
  4. Missa Ave Regina coelorum
    his last mass — he quoted his own motet in the text and added personal prayer interpolations
  5. Supremum est mortalibus bonum
    motet celebrating a peace treaty — political music

Similar composers

Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinity

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