Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Concerti    ecclesiastici   a   otto    voci,    780

Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant, 484

bar. See measure

Barber of Seville, The (Barbieri, Filippo), 719

Barcelona Mass, 315 –16

Bardi, Giovanni de’, Count, 799 , 800 , 803 , 804 , 826

bar form, 118 , 181

Bargagli, Girolamo, 803

Baroque, 699

alternate   labels  for,     797 –98

aspects of,  786

first   musical composition termed,  797

Monteverdi  and,     735

movement    from    ars perfecta    toward,  630 ,   689 ,   727

original    meaning of  term,    629

Bartoli, Cosimo, 384 , 641

barzelletta (song genre), 695 –96

Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, 9 , 10

Basiron, Philippe,

Missa   L’Homme Armé,    493 ,   494

Salve   Regina,  501 –4

bass (voice), 467 , 468 –71

Caput   Mass    and,     474 ,   475 ,   477 ,   482

Missa   L’Homme Armé    and,     492 –93

bassadanza (basse danse), 621 , 622 –23, 626

basso buffo. See buffo,

basso continuo. See continuo

basso generale, 783

basso seguente, 781 , 782 , 783 , 795

bassus voice. See bass,

bass viol, 741

battaglia, 834

battle pieces, 711 –12, 787 –89

Bavaria. See Munich,

bawdy songs, 138 , 710 –11

beat, Ars Nova notation of, 251 –52

Beata viscera (conductus/motet), 406 –7, 433

Beata viscera (Perotin), 173 –74