Estienne du Tertre

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Estienne du Tertre ( bl. 1543–1567) was a French composer . He worked in Paris as an editor for the music publisher Pierre Attaignant . Many of his chansons were printed.

In 1557 his Suyttes de bransles appeared . This is the first evidence of the generic term suite as a sequence of dance movements, while Branles previously always appeared as a pair of dance and night dance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Máire Egan Buffet: Les Chansons De Claude Goudimel: Analyzes Modales Et Stylistiques. Inst of Medieval Music Limited, 1992, ISBN 9780931902734 , p. 142.
  2. ↑ Máire Egan Buffet: Les Chansons De Claude Goudimel: Analyzes Modales Et Stylistiques. Inst of Medieval Music Limited, 1992, ISBN 9780931902734 , p. 298.
  3. ↑ Keyboard Idioms in the Suites of Handel and His British Contemporaries, 1710-1740. ProQuest, 2008, ISBN 9780549949411 , p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Tertre, Estienne you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tertre, you Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century