binchois wrote beautiful melodies which were much simpler than a lot of the music of the middle ages. they are easy to sing and remember. many later composers used melodies by binchois as a basis for their own masses. most of his secular songs are rondeaux, which became the most common song form during the century. binchois did not often write in strophic form. he preferred to write music which did not follow the rhyming rhythm of the verse.