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Robert Morton

Robert Morton (b c 1430, d 1476?) English composer who worked at the Burgundian court from 1457 to 1476. He is credited with the earliest known setting, as a chanson, of the tune l'homme arme, which was used by many Early Renaissance composers as a cantus firmus for the Mass.
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