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Dufay

American  
[doo-fahy, dy-fay] / duˈfaɪ, düˈfeɪ /

noun

  1. Guillaume c1400–74, Flemish composer.


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Adamant she wouldn’t continue the cycle of family trauma and pain, she opted for an abortion and returned to L.A., hoping to connect with her dad Rick Dufay, a former Aerosmith guitarist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Monday is the first day of the school year’s second semester and Maintenance and Operations Executive Director John Dufay says he expects most of the work to be done by then.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 5, 2019

The harmonic progressions of “Moribus et Genere” by Guillaume Dufay, a French-Flemish Renaissance composer, were elegantly transposed for string quartet by John Pickford Richards, the JACK’s violist.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2013

The daughter of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, she has been romantically linked to musician John Mayer and actors Chris Evans and Donald Faison.

From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2011

Dufay builds an identifiable melody, nestled among harmonious chords that lead along the arc of a phrase towards a satisfying cadence.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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