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Talk:General Conference on Weights and Measures

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Talk:General Conference on Weights and Measures From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search International Committee for Weights and Measures was nominated for deletion . The discussion was closed on 14 February 2020 with a consensus to merge . Its contents were merged into General Conference on Weights and Measures . The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history ; for its talk page, see here . WikiProject Measurement   ( Defunct ) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Measurement , a project which is currently considered to be defunct . Measurement Wikipedia:WikiProject Measurement Template:WikiProject Measurement Measurement articles   While trying to find out what happened at the 2nd CGPM in 1897, I found this Web page in Hungarian that says &q

Guillaume Du Fay

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Guillaume Du Fay From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search French Renaissance composer Guillaume Du Fay (left) beside a portative organ , with Gilles Binchois (right) holding a small harp in a c.  1440 Illuminated manuscript copy of Martin le Franc's Le champion des dames [n 1] Part of a series on Renaissance music Overview Composers Transition to Baroque Movements and schools Burgundian Franco-Flemish Colorist Florentine Camerata Roman Venetian English Virginalist English Madrigal Major figures Du Fay Ockeghem Tinctoris Josquin Tallis Zarlino Palestrina Lassus Byrd Victoria G. Gabrieli Monteverdi Major forms Anthem Chanson Madrigal Mass Motet v t e Guillaume Du Fay ( / dj uː ˈ f aɪ / dew- FY , French:  [dy fa(j)i] ; also Dufay , Du Fayt ; 5 August 1397(?) – 27 November 1474) was a French compos