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Gilles Binchois, a Common card
Gilles de Bins dit Binchois was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,500
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Gilles Binchois quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gilles Binchois card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Binchois was born in Mons to an upper-class family from ______.
Answer
Binche. Binchois was born in Mons to an upper-class family from Binche. From the Gilles Binchois article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
James Gibbs. James Gibbs 13,000 · Gilles Binchois 8,500 · Mabel Bent 5,200 · Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw 580 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A central figure of the Burgundian School, Binchois is a renowned melodist and miniaturist, he generally avoided large scale works, and is most admired for his shorter secular chansons.
- Contemporary musicologists generally rank his importance below his colleague Guillaume Du Fay and the English composer John Dunstaple, but together the three were the most celebrated composers of the early European Renaissance.
- Binchois was born in Mons to an upper-class family from Binche.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gilles Binchois article was read about 8,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Gilles Binchois
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gilles Binchois (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Master of the Missal of Paul Beye, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
