Guillaume Dufay
Medieval · 1400–1474
By the mid-1400s Guillaume Dufay's services were requested all over Europe, and his career shows it. Born around 1400 in the Low Countries and trained at the cathedral of Cambrai in northern France, he sang in the papal choir in Rome and worked for courts in Italy and Savoy before returning to Cambrai as a senior churchman for his final decades.
His music is nearly all vocal: settings of the Mass, songs for courtly entertainment, and motets, which are short choral pieces often written for grand occasions. For the consecration of the cathedral of Florence in 1436, under Brunelleschi's newly finished dome, he wrote the motet Nuper rosarum flores, a piece made for a specific building on a specific day that is still sung today.
Nuper rosarum flores is the place to begin. Then try the Missa Se la face ay pale, a full Mass built around a tune from one of his own love songs.
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Vocal
- Missa L'Homme armé
- Missa Se la face ay pale
- Nuper rosarum flores,
- Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys
- Agnus Dei
- Anima mea liquefacta est
- Apostolo glorioso
- Aurea luce et decore roseo
- Ave maris stella
- Ave Regina caelorum
- Ave virgo que de celis
- Balsamus et munda cera
- Belle, que vous ay je meffait
- Belle, veulliés moy retenir
- Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine
- Ce jour de l'an
- Conditor alme siderum
- Credo
- Dona gentile, bella come l'oro
- Dona i ardenti ray
- Donnés l'assault a la fortresse
- Ecclesie militantis
- Entre vous, gentils amoureux
- Exultet celum laudibus
- Flos florum
- Franc cuer gentil, sur toutes gracieuse
- Fulgens iubar ecclesie
- Gaude virgo, mater Christi
- Helas, ma dame, par amours
- Helas mon dueil, a ce cop sui je mort
- Inclita stella maris
- Invidia nimica
- J'atendray tant qu'il vous playra
- J'ay mis mon cuer et ma pensee
- Je me complains piteusement
- Je veuil chanter de cuer joyeux
- Je vous prie
- Juvenis qui puellam
- L'alta belleza tua virtute valore
- La belle se siet au pied de la tour
- La dolce vista del tuo viso pio
- Le serviteur hault guerdonne,
- Letabundus
- Ma belle dame souveraine
- Magnanime gentis
- Mirandas parit hec urbs
- Mon chier amy, qu'aves vous empensé
- Mon cuer me fait tous dis penser
- Moribus et genere
- Navré je suis d'un dart penetratif
- O beate Sebastiane
- O gemma, lux et speculum
- O proles Hispaniae
- O sancte Sebastiane
- O tres piteulx
- Pange lingua gloriosi [i],
- Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir
- Par le regard de vos beaux yeux
- Passato è il tempo omai di quei pensieri
- Pour l'amour de ma doulce amye
- Puisque vous estez campieur
- Quel fronte signorille in paradiso
- Recollectio omnium festorum Beate Marie Virginis
- Resveilliés vous et faites chiere lye
- Resvelons nous, resvelons, amoureux
- Rite maiorem Jacobum
- Salve flos Tusce
- Sanctus and Benedictus
- Sanctus Ave verum corpus and Agnus Custos et pastor,
- Se la face ay pale
- Supremum est mortalibus
- Trop long temps ai esté en desplaisir
- Urbs beata Ierusalem
- Vasilissa ergo gaude
- Vergene bella
- Vexilla regis prodeunt
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