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The aim of this project is to develop a model for the analysis of renaissance polyphony, considering music essentially as a sounding process that unfolds in time. Temporality and sound perception are at the centre of such an approach, both in establishing its theoretical foundations and in its analytical applications. Firstly, the processual approach to music is specified in contrast with existing models from other disciplines. Its main philosophical issues are examined, as well as more specific applications in the domain of cognitive sciences. Secondly, the project aims at a close reading of a selected corpus of music theoretical texts from the sixteenth century, allowing the embedding of the processual approach in renaissance musical thinking. With regard to both speculative and practical music theory, it examines how music is considered as a temporal and sounding phenomenon in the context of those treatises. Finally, the project develops a processual analytical strategy and applies this to the the ricercars of Adriaan Willaert. The prototypical features of this repertoire facilitate a transfer of the results of this project to other polyphonic genres.