Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Index

Page    numbers in  italics indicate    illustrations.

A

Aaron, Pietro, 576 –78, 579 , 630

ABA. See da capo aria, Abbate, Carolyn, 827

abbreviavit, translations of, 186

Abélard, Pierre, 112 , 172

absolute music, 541 –42, 610 –11, 796

absolutism, Italian city-states and, 277

abstract duration ratios. See rhythm

abstract number, 37

abstract pitch ratios. See intervals

academic musicology. See musicology

academic style, 607 –11

Palestrina  and,     666

academies, Florentine, 798 –801, 818

Academy (ancient Greece), 798

a cappella, 666 –67

St. Mark’s  choir   and,     780

Accademia degli Elevati (Florence), 818

Accademia dei Umidi (later Accademia Florentino), 798 –99

Accademia Platonica (Florence), 798

accentus, 22

accidentals, 35 , 274 , 275 , 596 , 721

Acquila, Serafino dall’, 552

acrostic, musical, 446 , 704

acting,

of  liturgy,     52

monody  and,     822

Act of Supremacy (1534; England), 671 , 675

Act of Uniformity (1549; England), 672 –73, 675

Adam de la Halle (Adam le Bossu), 120 , 121 –26

motets  of,  122 ,   220 –21,    233

Oswald  von Volkenstein compared    with,    142 –43

polyphonic  songs   of,  122 ,   123 ,   142 ,   291

works   of