Franco-Flemish love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to historical Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut, and especially to the style of polyphonic musical composition that flourished there in the 1400s and 1500s.

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Examples

  • Mr. Kyr has spent 40 years studying the now rarely performed music of the Franco-Flemish Desprez 1450-1521, and prepared new editions of his scores for these concerts.

    Modern Echoes of the Renaissance Brett Campbell 2011

  • The second generation of Franco-Flemish composers until ca.1495:

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

  • The Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Regis (also known as Jehan Leroy) was born c1425 and died (?) in Soignies, c1496.

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  • Jacob Obrecht was Franco-Flemish church musician and composer.

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  • Prioris was a Franco-Flemish composer who flourished in 1485 and died in 1512.

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  • If ever it was thought necessary to prove that Palestrina early in his life gained much from coming under the influence of the great Franco-Flemish composers, this resplendent parody mass shows how important they were to him and how he could turn their idiom to his own ends.

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  • The Franco-Flemish church musician and composer Johannes okeghem (or Jean Ockeghem) was born in St. Ghislain, near Mons, c.1410 and died (?) in Tours, 6 February 1497.

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  • The first generation of Franco-Flemish composers until ca.

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  • So I'll continue the posts that were anounced on the previous "Soon on Atrium Musicologicum...", with the second generation of the Franco-Flemish school.

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  • It is important to remember that Brumel was also the composer of a mass entitled Berzerette savoyenne (published in 1503) written to the song of the same title by Josquin Desprez (1501), thus demonstrating once again the links between that were forged by the Franco-Flemish composer with the court of the Duke of Savoy.

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