ABSTRACT
An attempt to show that the famous influence of English composers on Binchois and Dufay must have happened in the second decade of the century, not just with the English armies in France but most particularly with the English deputations at the Council of Constance (1414–18). And to show that the English music that had that impact was almost certainly the carols, particularly their regular phrase structure and predominantly syllabic declamation, features also present in much of the earliest music of Dufay and Binchois but very much absent from the previous generation. The carols should therefore take their place as one of the most influential repertories of the early fifteenth century.
