Previous posts for August 5th are here: Guillaume DuFay (2019), (2020), Guillaume Du Fay; Ambroise Thomas (2021), Jeri Southern; Antonio Cesti (2022), and Antonio Cesti (2023)
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Guillaume Dufay (or more fashionably Du Fay) (5 August, c. 1397 – 27 November 1474) was one of the greatest composers in Western music history.
Taking Sides
In undergraduate music history classes
We listened to his songs, motets, and Masses,
For some it seemed at best a dubious notion
That music such as this had won devotion,
While others felt a spiritual upheaval
And found themselves entranced by the medieval
Strains that once had echoed through the gray
And sculpted Gothic arches of Cambrai.
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