... as he was widely traveled and highly competed for by patrons. Du Fay is known for his 6 masses, 35 other mass movements, 4 magnificants, 60 hymns, 24 motets, 34 plainchant melodies, 60 rondeaux and 8 ballades (Constantinidis 1) . Du Fay drew on French and Italian styles; some of this can be ... by their predecessors such as Joqsuin Desprez and Jacob Obrecht whose music was made possible by Ockeghem and Busnoys. Desprez (1450-1521) was noteworthy for focusing on the text, using 5 and 6 voice pieces, imitation, homophony, smooth melodies and full triadic harmonies. One of the most influenti...

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... to call this period The Age of Enlightenment'. These radical new ways of looking at the world ended up paving the way for the American and French revolutions towards the end of the eighteenth century. The architecture and visual images of the classical period differed greatly from the Baroque period ... halfway through and then slides into B flat major. After this the second subject moves through a range of minor keys before returning to D major for the recapitulation that begins in bar 193. The recapitulation seems normal with the second subject staying in the D major tonic key all the ...

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