Dunstaple
- a variation of Dunstable.
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To understand the musical revolution that occurred in around 1400, at the hands of a composer and astrologer named John Dunstaple, we need to play with some notes.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Dunstaple was dubbed the forts et origo of the triadic craze, the ‘fount and origin’ of what the French called ‘the English countenance’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
John Dunstaple used triads abundantly in his music, and his fame spread rapidly across Europe after he travelled to France with Henry V’s army.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Dunstaple was a composer with a new and enchanting style that everyone wanted to emulate, and musicians fell over themselves praising the startling new sound of English triads.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
