One of the greatest madrigal composers was not an Italian, but a Frenchman named Philippe Verdelot, who spent most of his life in Italy. Not only was Verdelot unusually creative with the way he ...

For madrigal composers making every effort to follow the words, the transition from one phrase to the next presented a stumbling block. Transitions in sixteenth-century polyphony tyillcally feature a ...

LeClair credits the WSRC for enabling her study of little-known women composers. Accepted as a visiting scholar at the center in 2012, she has just been named a resident scholar there — “so now I get ...