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Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set By Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set by Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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This authoritative and comprehensive exploration of Du Fay's music and context will appeal to students, scholars, and others interested in medieval music. The volumes provide analysis of this important composer's entire corpus, as well as examining the church and musical history of the fifteenth century.

Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set Summary

Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set: The Life and Works by Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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.

Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set Reviews

' 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, Revue de musicology

About Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Alejandro Planchart's wide-ranging and distinguished career as composer, conductor and scholar began in Caracas, Venezuela and took him via Yale and Harvard to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is now Emeritus Professor. In 1963 he founded an early music ensemble, Cappella Cordina, with whom he issued a pioneering series of recordings of medieval and renaissance music. His book The Repertory of Tropes at Winchester (1977) won the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities in 1979. In 2006 he received the Howard M. Brown Award from Early Music America and in 2013 he received the Medal of the City of Tours. He was also winner, in 2009, of the Arion Prize from the Cambridge Society for Early Music for his work on Guillaume Du Fay, of which this book is the long-awaited summation.

Table of Contents

Volume I. The Life: List of illustrations; List of music examples; List of tables; Acknowledgments; The organization of the Cathedral of Cambrai; A note on currency; List of abbreviations; Prologue; 1. Origins and first years (13971414); 2. The beginnings of a musician's career (141428); 3. The Papal Chapel and the Court of Savoy (142839); 4. At the Cathedral of Cambrai (143950); 5. The courtier (145058); 6. The last years (145874); 7. Epilogue: historical aftermath. Volume II. The Works: List of music examples; List of tables; Acknowledgments; A note on currency; List of abbreviations; 8. Guillermus Du Fay, Musicus; 9. Isorhythmic and mensuration motets; 10. Cantilena, chant paraphrase, and new-style motets; 11. Music for the office; 12. Ordinary movements; 13. The propers; 14. The early mass cycles; 15. The late mass cycles; 16. The songs; Appendices; 1. Choristers and singers in Cambrai in the long fifteenth century; 2. The Magistri puerorum at Cambrai in the fifteenth century; 3. Grammar teachers and Rectores scholarum connected to the Cathedral in the fifteenth century; 4. The last will of Guillaume Du Fay and its probate; Bibliography; Index.

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Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set: The Life and Works by Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Alejandro Enrique Planchart (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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2018-09-06
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