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Dufay

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Du·fay  (d-f, dü-), Guillaume 1400?-1474.
Flemish composer regarded as the first great composer of the Renaissance. He is particularly known for his Mass compositions.


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The composers represented range from Gibbons, Calvisius, Palestrina, Dufay, and Janequin to 20th- and 21st-century composers like Gyorgy Ligeti, Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, Chen Yi, Steven Sametz, Michael McGlynn, and Mason Bates.
Music of Dufay, Josquin, Monteverdi, and others for consorts of voices and Renaissance instruments.
Dufay calls himself a live analog trio; he sings while playing keyboards and drums augmented with sequencers or samples.
 
 
 
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