Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Apostles, 719

Appress’ un fiume (Giovanni), 356 –59, 363 , 364

Apt Codex, 310 , 311 , 316

Aquitaine, 50 , 51

ars subtilior   composition and,     342 –45

monastic    polyphonic  manuscripts and,     156 –62,    166 ,   307

troubadours and,     106 –17,    351 ,   353

See also    Avignon papacy

Arabic mathematics, 252

Arabic music, 108 , 129 , 130

Aragon. See Spain, Arcadelt, Jacques, 723 , 724 , 725

Bianco  e   dolce   cigno,  Il,  724 –25,    726

Archilei, Vittoria, 804 , 806 –7

Architecture, 169 , 797

arcigravicembalo (enharmonic keyboard), 730 , 732 , 732

aria, 803

monody  and,     806 –12

origins of  word,    627

Aria della battaglia (A. Gabrieli), 787 –89

Aria di Fiorenza (Archilei), 804 , 806 –7

Aria di romanesca (Caccini), 823

Aria di romanesca (Frescobaldi), 823 , 824 , 825

Arie musicale (Frescobaldi), 821 , 824 –25

Arion (mythology), 804 , 805 , 809

aristocracy,

Grocheio’s  musical social  theory  and,     208

high    art and,     115 –16,    120 ,   226 ,   326 –27,    336

Italian musical preferences and,     351 –52,    367

madrigal    and,     354 –56,    368

meritocracy and,     121

Nuove   musiche song    and,     812 –13

troubadour  art and,     109 ,   110 ,   111 ,   116 ,   208

vernacular  song    and,     695

aristocracy of talent, 552 , 554 , 608

Aristotle, 196 , 248 , 551 , 587 , 727

ars perfecta    and,     615

Mei treatise    on,  799