The Changing Relationship Between Music and Poetry in France During in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

FAIN: FA-11318-76

Don M. Randel
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)

To study the changing relationship between secular music and vernacular poetry in France during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. To be considered are the works of Machaut; the chansons of Dyfay and Binchois; Josquin des Prez’s settings of the Rhetoriqueurs and of popular songs; settings of Marot's poetry; and the musical repertory surrounding the Pleiade poets.