Abstract
The most significant corpus of secular polyphony published at Lyon was Moderne'sParangon des Chansonswhich appeared between 1538 & 1543. Du Verdier, writing in 1584, claims that the series comprised eighteen books but his figure may refer to the totality of Moderne's secular polyphony and therefore include the reprints of the first four books, the two books of theDifficile des Chansonsor the two books ofcanzoniby Layolle and the Petrarch settings of Rampollini. At all events only eleven books of theParangonare known and there is no other evidence that Moderne revived the series after 1544. The subject of their typographical characteristics is comprehensively treated in Pogue's monograph on Moderne, but the same cannot be said for the musical and literary characteristics; the present study provides analytical comments on, and a listing of the concordances of, the 288 pieces contained in the various editions of the first ten books which survive in public libraries.
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