Throughout the Middle Ages, so-called “scholarly” music was almost exclusively dominated by the austere but fascinating lines of Gregorian chant. At the dawn of the 15th century, “men of the North”, Picards and Walloons, will revolutionize Western music by refining the nascent polyphonies and building real sound cathedrals.
These pioneers are called Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay (pronounced “dufaï”) or Josquin Desprez. The first two belong to what is called “the Cambrai school …
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