Guillaume Du Fay 2 Volume Hardback Set
The Life and Works

A thorough and comprehensive study of the fifteenth century's most influential composer and his cultural and spiritual world.

Alejandro Enrique Planchart (Author)

9781107166158, Cambridge University Press

, published 6 September 2018

950 pages, 15 b/w illus. 36 tables 69 music examples
27.3 x 20.6 x 10 cm, 2.46 kg

'… 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

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.

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 (1397–1414)
2. The beginnings of a musician's career (1414–28)
3. The Papal Chapel and the Court of Savoy (1428–39)
4. At the Cathedral of Cambrai (1439–50)
5. The courtier (1450–58)
6. The last years (1458–74)
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.

Subject Areas: Christian Churches & denominations [HRCC], Medieval & Renaissance music [c 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2], Music [AV]