Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

musical Mariolatry  and,     501

syncopated  counterpoint    and,     368

vernacular  genres  and,     526 –34

virtuoso    improvisation   and,     536 –41

See also    Renaissance

fifth equivalence, 151 , 495

fifth mode. See spondaic meter,

fifths. See circle of fifths; pentachord; V-I cadence,

fifth voice, 597

figural music. See polyphony,

figured (figuralis) song, 439

figured bass. See continuo,

finals, 73 –76, 77 –79

C   and A   as,  553 –54,    572 ,   587 ,   592

four,    73 –74,     76 ,    77 –78,     99 ,    587

parallel    doubling    and,     152

three,   99

fin’ amors,

conventions of,  108 –9,     111

French  variant,     118

Machaut refinement  of,  291 –98

Finck, Hermann, 589

fine amours. See fin’ amors,

Fines amouretes ai (Adam), 124 –25

fioritura (florid singing), 356

First book of ballets to five voyces, The (Morley), 746

First Crusade, 96

First Delphic Hymn, 33

first-inversion triads, 406

first mode. See trochaic meter

first practice. See stile antico

Fischer, Kurt von, 352

five-note scale. See pentatonic scale,

V-I cadence, 409 , 447 , 469 , 470 –71

fixed tune. See cantus firmus

flagellants (flagellanti), 133 –34

Flanders. See Belgium,