Professor Helen Abbott, the project lead says: “Baudelaire’s poetry changed the course of modern literature in France, Europe, and beyond. Now, for the first time, we can see how it shaped the course of modern music too. The Baudelaire Song Project has collected over 1,600 song which means we can use this dataset can answer questions such as: What are the performance trends in singing Baudelaire's poems? Which poems are never or rarely set to music, and why? How do composers and songwriters handle the challenges of setting French verse metre and are there certain types of musical genres which are more suited to Baudelaire's poetry than others?”