Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Ave verum corpus (Byrd), 686 , 687

Avignon papacy, 249 , 307 –21, 310 , 331 , 337 , 342 , 348 , 378 , 424

ayre (air), 813

B

Ba. See Bamberg Codex

Babylonian Captivity (papal), 310

Babylonian musical notation, 31 –32

Bach, Johann Sebastian,

Mass    in  B   Minor,   54

revival in  nineteenth  century of,  584

St. Thomas  (Leipzig)   cantorship  of,  763

background music, 611

Baini, Giuseppe, 652

Balaam motet, 399 –402, 403

balada as troubadour genre, 113 –14, 131 , 397

baladelle, 290

ballade (song), 124 –25, 255 , 290 , 298 –99, 501

ars subtilior   and,     342 ,   349

Binchois    and,     446 –52

Cypriot manuscript  and,     345

Deschamps   and,     336 –37

loftiness   of,  349

Machaut and,     302 –5,     327 ,   338 ,   371

Philippus   and,     338 –42,    341

unaccompanied   performance of,  452

See also    ballata;    cantilena

ballata, 134 , 364 –74, 694 –95

Boccaccio   texts   for,     366 ,   367

fixed   form    of,  724

frottola    and,     696

Landini and,     368 –71,    383

Ball at the Court of King Yon of Gascony (Liedet), 622

balletto, 746

ballo, 804 , 806 –7

ballroom dances, 621 , 626 , 742

Bamberg Codex, 214 –17, 220 –21, 229 , 541

Banchieri, Adriano, 780 , 781 , 792