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Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set: The Life and Works

by Alejandro Enrique Planchart

Du Fay’s career in the musical world of the fifteenth century

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Du Fay’s career in the musical world of the fifteenth century

Alejandro Enrique Planchart’s two-volume study brings together a biography of Guillaume Du Fay and an examination of his complete musical output, including works described as newly discovered. The account also places his career in the broader musical life of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. Attention to Du Fay’s association with Cambrai Cathedral and to the growing professionalisation of music connects the composer’s individual career with changes in how musicians worked and understood their roles. Musical analysis and historical context share the book’s scope, making it both a study of one composer’s legacy and a portrait of a period in medieval music.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying Guillaume Du Fay or fifteenth-century composers
  • Those interested in medieval music and church music history
  • Music scholars seeking a substantial study of a composer’s life and output

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Guillaume Du Fay’s life and musical worksMedieval European musical lifeCambrai CathedralProfessionalisation and the identity of the composer

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Book overview

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.
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