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Antoine Busnois
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Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys) (c. 1430 – November 6, 1492) was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay. Biography While details of his early life are largely conjectural, he was probably from the vicinity of Béthune in the Pas de Calais, possibly from the hamlet of Busnes, to which his name seems to refer. He may have been related to the aristocratic family of Busnes; in particular, a Philippe de Busnes, canon of Notre-Dame in Lens, could have been a relative. He clearly received an excellent musical education, probably at a church choir school somewhere in northern or central France. An aristocratic origin may explain his early association with the French royal court: as early as the 1450s references to him appear there, and in 1461 he was a chaplain at Tours. That he was not entirely a man of peace is indicated by a petition for absolution he filed in Tours, dated February 28, 1461, in which he admitted to being part of a group that beat up a priest, "to the point of bloodshed", not one but five times.[1] While in a state of anathema he was foolhardy enough to celebrate mass, an act which got him excommunicated; however Pope Pius II pardoned him. He moved from the cathedral to the collegiate church of St. Martin,
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Music for the Bentivoglio: Unica and highlights from codex Q 18
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Amours amours amours
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Saints and Sinners - The Music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Oh Flanders Free: Music of the Flemish Renaissance
Busnois: Mass "O crux lignum"
6 Masses Attributed To Antoine Busnoys
Ottaviano dei Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
Busnois: Missa O Crux lignum - Motets - Chansons
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Antoine Busnois: In mijnen sin (Arr. for Guitar)
Els Viatges de Tirant lo Blanch
Medieval Christmas
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Antoine Busnois: Missa "O crux lignum" (Arr. for Guitar)