Composer Guillaume Dufay (left) and Gilles Binchois (right), Martin le Franc, "Champion des Dames"
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The Burgundian School was a group of composers active in the 15th century in what is now northern and eastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, centered on the court of the Dukes of Burgundy. The school inaugurated the music of Burgundy.
The main names associated with this school are Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, Antoine Busnois and (as an influence), the English composer John Dunstaple. The Burgundian School was the first phase of activity of the Franco-Flemish School, the central musical practice of the Renaissance in Europe.
The BurgundianSchool was a group of composers active in the 15th century in what is now northern and eastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, centered...
The Burgundian State (French: État bourguignon; Dutch: Bourgondische Rijk) is a concept coined by historians to describe the vast complex of territories...
and the spread of the contenance angloise style from Britain to the BurgundianSchool. A convenient watershed for its end is the adoption of basso continuo...
– before 22 October 1455) was a composer of the early-Renaissance Burgundianschool. Of his output, only sacred vocal music has survived, and it typifies...
Middle Ages and early Renaissance, particularly by composers of the BurgundianSchool. Guillaume Dufay was a prominent practitioner of the form (as was...
Franco-Flemish composer of early Renaissance music. A central figure of the BurgundianSchool, Binchois and his colleague Guillaume Du Fay were deeply influenced...
with composers of the BurgundianSchool, particularly his colleague Gilles Binchois, but was never a regular member of the Burgundian chapel himself. While...
Charles was killed and Burgundian expansion was ended forthwith and forever. Busnois remained in the employ of the Burgundian court until 1482, but nothing...
of the choirboys, at Bourges; and in 1412 he began his career with the Burgundian court of John the Fearless (Duke of Burgundy). In 1419 he returned to...
innovation, particularly in music. The music of the 15th-century BurgundianSchool defined the beginning of the Renaissance in music, and the polyphony...
Pierre Fontaine (composer) (c. 1380 – c.1450), French composer of the Burgundianschool Peter Fontaine (born Pierre Fontaine; 1691–1757), Virginia clergyman...
England but on the continent, especially in the developing style of the BurgundianSchool. Dunstaple's influence on the continent's musical vocabulary was enormous...
which all 15th-century kings of France belonged. During his reign, the Burgundian State reached the apex of its prosperity and prestige, and became a leading...
v t e BurgundianSchool Composers Adrien Basin Arnold de Lantins Gilles Binchois Antoine Busnois Johannes Cesaris Jean Cousin Pierre Fontaine Hayne van...
1571) November 6, 1492 – Antoine Busnois, composer and poet of the BurgundianSchool (b. c. 1430). January 28, 1495 – Juan de Triana, Spanish singer and...
John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg. Philip was the founder of the Burgundian branch of the House of Valois. His vast collection of territories made...
1476 to 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance BurgundianSchool. While many of his works have survived, little is known about his...
v t e BurgundianSchool Composers Adrien Basin Arnold de Lantins Gilles Binchois Antoine Busnois Johannes Cesaris Jean Cousin Pierre Fontaine Hayne van...
Netherlands, and Belgium. The style of the Burgundian composers, as the first generation of the Franco-Flemish school is known, was at first a reaction against...
Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois are two notable examples from the Burgundianschool during the early Renaissance period. The most renowned composer in...
his appellation is attributed to his artistic affiliation with the BurgundianSchool. His fame is principally associated with his work at the Certosa di...
recognized for possessing something never heard before in music of the BurgundianSchool: la contenance angloise ("the English countenance"), a term used by...
chronicle, possessing less historical value. He was the head of a Burgundianschool of poetry called the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, characterised by their...
medieval period and early Renaissance. He was an early member of the BurgundianSchool, during the reigns of John the Fearless and Philip the Good. The earliest...
French composer of the early Renaissance. He was a minor member of the BurgundianSchool, a contemporary of Guillaume Dufay, and one of the first to use fauxbourdon...
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