Franco-Flemish composer who was a contemporary of, and as important as, Dunstable and Dufay. The only moot point is how influential could he have been given the limitation that he never traveled far from the Burgundian court. However, his music gave the identifiable characteristics to what became known as the Burgundian style of music. Binchois' influence was geograpically far-reaching. He is often mentioned in the same context as Dunstable and Dufay and was considered to be one of the teachers of the next generation of composers. Numerous copies and transcriptions of his intablatures are indexed in various collections by editors, collectors, musicographers and composers. Some of his works even provided material for Josquin, Ghiselin, and Agricola to name just a few. Upon his death, laments were composed for him by both Dufay and Ockeghem, his note-worthy contemporaries. It is certainly the case that English music had an influence on Binchois as the English occupied France during most of his life. The survival of his works also had an international flare as the four major volumes containing his work were copied in Italy, not in France or England. His works were both sacred and secular respectively including masses, mass cycles, anthems, hymns, motets, psalms, and, rondeaux. Though his technical variance was diminutive, if existant at all, his melodic lines were perhaps the most sonorous of all 15th century composers. ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide