{"url":"http://digitalduchemin.org/person/52/","full_name":"Du Tertre, Etienne","analyses":[],"person_id":"73","surname":"Du Tertre","given_name":"Etienne","birth_date":null,"death_date":null,"active_date":"1530's-1550's","alt_spelling":"Du Tertre","remarks":"Composer and arranger active in Paris during the 1530’s through 1550’s.  He edited a collection of ensemble dances for the firm of Attaingnant in 1557.   His 57 four-voice chansons are chiefly of the concise and chordal variety, but a few venture beyond the confines of this idiom to embrace other aspects of the mid-century chanson.  A number of his chosen texts were also set by composers such as Sandrin and Sermisy.  Caroline M. Cunningham. “Du Tertre, Etienne,” New Grove 2, VII, 769-70."}