1460s in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1460s.

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Events

1464

• 22 February – Henry Abyngdon receives a Bachelor of Music at Cambridge, the first recorded musical degree^[1]

1465

• May – Henry Abyngdon is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal in London
• September – Antoine Busnois is appointed master of the choirboys at Église Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers^[2]

1467

• Antoine Busnois is employed at the court of Count Charles of Charolais before he becomes Duke of Burgundy^[3]

1468

• Anna Inglese and her entourage are hired by Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan to devise and perform entertainments for his marriage to Bona of Savoy^[4]

Compositions

1464

• May – Robert Morton writes the first known setting of L'homme armé^[5]

Manuscripts

1460

• Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier, including compositions by Philippe Basiron^[6]

Births

1468

• probable
  • William Cornysh, English composer (d. 1523)

Deaths

1460

• 20 September – Gilles Binchois, Burgundian composer (b. c.1400)^[7]

1466

• date unknown
  • Nicolaus Zacharie, Italian composer (b. c.1400)^[8]

References

1. "Abyngton, Henry (ABNN463H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
2. Higgins, Paula, ed. (1999). Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music. Oxford University Press. p. 552. ISBN 0-19-816406-8.
3. Montagna, Gerald (1987). Fenlon, Iain (ed.). Early Music History 7: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (2009 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-521-74654-0.
4. Archivio Storico Lombardo: Indici Anni I - XX. Milan: Societa Storica Lombarda. 1893. p. 107.
5. Taruskin, Richard (1986). "Antoine Busnoys and the "L'Homme armé" Tradition". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 39 (2): 255–293. doi:10.2307/831531. JSTOR 831531.
6. RISM 451509099 Der Wolfenbütteler Chansonnier
7. Fallows, David (2001). "Binchois [Binchoys], Gilles de Bins [Binch, Binche] dit". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03094.
8. Fallows, David (2001). "Zacharie, Nicolaus". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52676.