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Gilles Binchois

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gilles Binchois , c.1400-1460, Flemish composer. From about 1430 until his death Binchois served Philip the Good of Burgundy. His secular chansons are considered his best work. The 15th-century theorist Tinctoris ranked him with Dufay and Dunstable. Author not available, BINCHOIS, GILLES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit
Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit ( b ?Mons, c. 1400; d Soignies, 1460). Franco-Flemish composer and organist. Regarded as one of major composers of... Read more

Binchois, Gilles de
Binchois, Gilles de ( c. 1400–60) Franco-Flemish composer and organist. After Dufay , he was the most influential composer of the early to... Read more

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	CLASSICAL MUSIC Ustad Nishat Khan / Ensemble Gilles Binchois QEH, London ; ...music of the Islamic sect. The Paris-based Ensemble Gilles Binchois, specialists in medieval vocal music, and ace sitarist...concert and its recorded incarnation. The Ensemble Gilles Binchois, electronically amplified to sound suitably ethereal... Read more
	Binchois and beyond ; ...studies of the fifteenth-century Burgundian master Binchois studies Edited by Andrew Kirkman & Dennis Slavin...xviii, 353pp; L70. ISBN 0 19 816668 0. DUFAY AND BINCHOIS - how easily the names run together in our textbook-condition...for Dufay is unarguably the greater composer. Yet as Binchois ... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...amazing that the sacred music of Binchois (Gilles de Binche) is collected and...of new editions. But with Binchois, as well as other fifteenth-centu...achievement. The publication of Binchois's sacred music is a significant...to be the limited scope of Binchois's sacred output as compared... Read more
	Travel: Beware of low flying fruit At Mardi Gras, the Belgian town of Binche is pelted with oranges by men in padded suits. ; ...Carnaval's heart are the Gilles, weirdly costumed...magical powers. For a Binchois, becoming a Gille...1943, a group of Gilles in a Nazi prison...Year, when the Gilles amass in front...shuffle behind the Gilles-in-waiting, inching...tavern and another Binchoise beer (if you need...to ... Read more
	Musica Antigua has French flavor ; ...French troubadours as well as the great French composers of the 14th-17th centuries, among them Guillaume de Machaut, Gilles Binchois, Pierre Certon, Josquin des Prez, Claude le Jeune and Claudin de Sermisy. Musica Antigua performers will include... Read more
	A bit of a puzzler ; ...and in the French-speaking area of Flanders around Mons. It is possible that he studied with the chanson composer Gilles Binchois, on whose death in 1460 he composed an affecting deploration. There is also evidence that, in an era when a composer... Read more
	Summer Festivals ; ...in residence and some of the performers include the Tallis Scholars, Voce Poetica, Collegium Vocale and Ensemble Gilles Binchois. - Berlin 47. Berliner Festwochen, tel: (49) 30-254-89-100, fax: 89-230, Internet: http://www.berlinerfestspiele... Read more
	SCHOLARLY POMERIUM WEAVES PIECES TOGETHER IN `OCKEGHEM'.(What's Happening) ; ...weaves connections betweeen the composers - Ockeghem, Guillaume Du Fay, Josquin Desprez, Antoine Busnoys and Gilles Binchois. Binchois may have been teacher or mentor of Ockeghem, who in turn could have been the same for Busnoys, who then may... Read more
	BELGIANS BORING? JUST LOOK AT THIS LOT; TRAVEL MAIL. ; ...in the shape of Mam'zelles - Binchois men turned 'young ladies' in...Mam'zelles can't compete with the Gilles, who take over the town two...the Mardi Gras. By 9am, the Gilles are gathering into their various...each group, roaring as the Gilles near the square and don their... Read more
	Masks and Miracles On Parade; In Dozens of Belgian Folk & Religious Festivals ; ...noon, the procession - now swollen to several hundred Gilles - passes through the town fortifications, and participants...knows exactly how this festival and the traditions of the Gilles evolved, but one theory is that the Gilles are based on a 16th- century idea of New World inhabitants...dressed up as ... Read more

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