Word: dufay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the composers represented will be Inchois, Dufay, Byrd, Campian, Monteverdi, Tomkins, Machaut, di Lasso, and Josquin des Pres...
...concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...
...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...