Verdelot, Philippe, 711 –12, 723
Verdi, Giuseppe, on Palestrina, 666
Veris ad imperia (conductus), 397 –99
Verkündigungslied, 760
vernacular, 3 , 99 , 106 –45, 351 , 459 , 694 –709
England and, 387 –95, 419 –20, 741 –51
first major music theory written in, 576
France and, 106 –7, 706 –13
Germany and, 134 –42, 701 –6, 717
instrumental accompaniment for poetry in, 131 –33
Italian poetry and, 722 –23
Italy and, 133 –34, 350 , 351 –52, 694 –701
macaronic texts, 113 , 233 –34, 420
“metrical psalms” published in, 597 –99
music printers and, 691 –92, 693 –94, 710
Palestrina motet texts and, 632
as psalm settings, 754 –55
Rabelesian genre of, 711
Spain and, 116 , 128 –33, 724
Tinctoris’s ranking of, 460 , 526Verona, madrigalists, 352 , 353 , 738
Veronese (Paolo Caliari), 741
Versailles, 349
verse-music. See troubadours
verse play. See liturgical drama
verse sequences. See versus
versification,
as mnemonic device, 185 –86
as natural music, 337
See also poetryversus (musical form), 86 –92, 93 , 94 , 111 , 171 , 387
end of tradition of, 174
goliards and, 138
harmony and, 122
liturgical drama and, 93 –95
polyphonic settings of, 156 , 157 , 159 , 160 , 162
rhythmic performance of, 114