A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Coste, Gaspard

COSTE, Gaspard, chorister in the cathedral of Avignon about 1530, composer of songs and madrigals, preserved in the following collections; 'Trente-cinq livres des chansons à quatre parties' (Paris 1539–1549); 'Le Parangon des chansons' (Lyons 1540–1543); 'Motetti del Fiore' (Ib. 1532–1539); 'Sdegnosi ardori; Musica di diversi authori sopra un istesso sogetto di parole' (Munich 1575); and 'Ghirlanda di Fioretti musicale' (Rome 1589).

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