blind musicians,
famous organists, 374
improvisational virtuosity of, 536
Blondel de Nesle, 117
Blumen, 140
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 365 –66, 367
as proto-Renaissance figure, 382 –83
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, 17 , 69 , 70 –72, 71 , 74 , 77 , 94 , 185 , 187 , 196 , 281 , 291 , 495 , 552 ,
553 , 585 , 799
Bohemia. See Czech lands
Bologna, 352 , 435 , 780 , 781
Bone amourete (Adam), 123 , 220
Boniface, Saint, 7
Boniface IX, Pope, 348
Bonitatem fecisti servo tuo, Domine (Carpentras attrib.), 554 –55, 557
Booke of Common Praier Noted, The (Merbecke), 673
Book of Common Prayer (Anglican), 672 –73, 675
Book of Hymns (Notker), 41 , 42
Book of Procurors, 170
Book of St. James. See Codex Calixtinus,
Book of the Courtier (Castiglione), 626 , 698
Borgia, Lucrezia, 458 , 544
Borgia family, 458
Borromeo, Carlo Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan, 650 , 652
Bossinensis, Franciscus (Francis from Bosnia), 698 –99
bottom-up techniques, 291 , 326 , 403
bourgeoisie,
ballata and, 368
French emergence of, 120 , 121
bourgeois music. See domestic entertainment
Bourges, 342 , 458
Brahms, Johannes,
German vernacular songs and, 702 , 703 –4
Von edler Art, 703 –4
Brescia, 787
breve, 197 , 217 , 355
Marchetto classification and, 355 , 356
See also semibreve