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Gilles Joye
10+ albums
Classicalfrenchrenaissancemedievalmedieval classical
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Gilles Joye (1424 or 1425 – 31 December 1483) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known mainly for his secular songs which were in a lyrical and graceful style. Gilles seems to have had an excellent musical education, probably at either Kortrijk or Bruges, where he was hired as a singer in 1449. Between 1454 and 1459 no record of his activities survives in the Low Countries; based on his composition of an Italian ballata on a poem by a contemporary Florentine, it has been suggested that he spent some time in Italy, as did so many other Franco-Flemish composers of his and succeeding generations. By 1459 he was back at St. Donatian in Bruges. In 1462 he was hired as a singer by the Burgundian court chapel, a position he retained officially until 1471, although he had ceased to perform his duties in 1468. Between 1465 and 1473 he was also a rector at Delft. After 1471 he most likely returned to St. Donatian. He died in Bruges, and was buried in the church of St. Donatian. All of Joye's surviving music is vocal and secular, and for three voices only. Four of his works are rondeaux, in French (though the text for one rondeau is lost), and one is an Italian ballata, probably written between 1454 and 1459 when he may have been in Italy. Joye's songs are typical of the Burgundian secular music of the period; they are melodic, clear, and lyrical in style. One of them, Ce qu'on fait, is frankly obscene. No sacred music is known
top songs
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Ce qu'on fait à quatimini, rondeau à 3
302Ce qu'on fait a quatimini
283Instrumental pieces
94Ce qu'on fait à catimini (rondeau)
75Pièce instrumentale - Live
76Missa super O Rosa Bella: I. Kyrie
57Missa super O Rosa Bella: IV. Sanctus
48Mercy, mon deuil (rondeau)
49[...] (rondeau sans texte)
410Non pas que je veuille penser (rondeau)
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