Music and Verse in the Secular Polyphony of France and Italy, Circa 1440-1560
FAIN: FS-10522-76
Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
Leeman L. Perkins (Project Director: January 1977 to present)
To examine the relationship between text and music on a variety of levels: syntactic, formal, and rhetorical. Special attention will be given to the musician's role in Renaissance society and to the social and aesthetic functions of secular music based on the vernacular.