Inside the Cathedral of Guillaume Dufay

By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor

When I first heard the music of the early Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay, I felt as if I had entered a cool stone sanctuary on a parched summer day. His counterpoint had the delicate translucence of alabaster. I could hear every strand and feel each passing dissonance as a moment of pleasurable pain, knowing that it would always relax into concord. I grew enthralled by the mechanical complexity and simple radiance of those 500-year-old motets.… more »