Burgundian School

The Burgundian School was a group of composers active in the 15th century in what is now northern and eastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, centered on the court of the Dukes of Burgundy. The school inaugurated the music of Burgundy.

A term occasionally used, somewhat misleadingly, to refer to the great succession of 15th- and 16th-century composers who were born and trained in the Low Countries (present-day Holland, Belgium, and northern France) but were often resident elsewhere in Europe during their adult careers.

Most secular chansons by Burgundian composers were for three voices, with the main melody usually in the cantus and with larger ranges for each voice than in the previous century. The foremost composers of the Burgundian style were Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397–1474) and Gilles de Bins, known as Binchois (ca.

Cadences, An ornamental VII 6 - 1 with a "Landini sixth" (also called the Burgundian cadence) is very com mon, This cadence has two leading tones; one to the fifth and the other to the octave. The V - I cadence is also common, with parts crossing to avoid parallel fifths.

The Burgundians (Latin: Burgundes, Burgundiōnes, Burgundī; Old Norse: Burgundar; Old English: Burgendas; Greek: Βούργουνδοι) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and were later moved into the empire, in eastern Gaul.

As the central figure of the Burgundian School, Dufay was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.

The distinctive characteristic of Burgundian sculpture is its calm, majestic severity, achieved by extreme elongation and angularity, drastic flattening, and hierarchical size of figures and by the swirling lines of endless flattened pleats of drapery. See also Cistercian style.

There are 4 cadences - Perfect (or Authentic), Plagal, Imperfect (or Half) and Interrupted (or Deceptive) which can sound "finished" or "unfinished". The perfect cadence is also known as the authentic cadence. It is a progression from chord V to chord I.

cadence, in music, the ending of a phrase, perceived as a rhythmic or melodic articulation or a harmonic change or all of these; in a larger sense, a cadence may be a demarcation of a half-phrase, of a section of music, or of an entire movement.

In Belgium and in the south of the Netherlands, the expression "Burgundian lifestyle" is still used to denote enjoyment of life, good food, and extravagant spectacle.

Burgundy This Gaulish domain became the Kingdom of the Burgundians. This later became a component of the Frankish Empire. The name of this kingdom survives in the regional appellation, Burgundy, which is a region in modern France, representing only a part of that kingdom.

Kings of the Burgundians Gundobad (473–516 in Lyon, king of all of Burgundy from 480), Chilperic II (473–493 in Valence) Godomar I (473–486 in Vienna) Godegisel (473–500, in Vienne and Geneva)