In a period when Franco-Flemish composers were of the greatest importance, Binchois was one of the three most influential, alongside Dufay and the English Dunstable. They were associated with the court of the Duke of Burgundy, with its widespread dynastic connections throughout Europe. Binchois’s setting of the Te Deum, the earliest polyphonic setting to survive, was particularly well known, and he also wrote a series of vocal compositions both sacred and secular.