Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

insular musical idiom   and,     396 –97,    399 ,   405 ,   406 ,   409 ,   613 –14

Italian musical craze   in,  743 –44

liturgical  drama   in,  93

liturgical  music   and,     612 –14,    672

madrigal    and,     742 ,   744 ,   746 –51

Mass    ordo    standardization and,     60 ,    61

medieval    monasticism and,     4 –5,   7 ,     387

metric  system  and,     253

motet   and,     399 –403,   405 ,   406 –7,     408 –11,    423 –33,    460 ,   462 ,   512 –18

musical importance  of,  422 –52

musical reticence   and,     751

music   publishing  in,  678 ,   679 ,   692 ,   694

nationalism and,     389 ,   399 ,   405 –6,     409 ,   670 ,   746

Norman  Conquest    of,  397 ,   397

Notre   Dame/University of  Paris   students    from,    172 –73

Old Hall    manuscript  and,     409 –18,    429 ,   461 ,   513

pan-European    musical style   and,     422

parish  church  musical oral    tradition   and,     27

polyphony   and,     155 ,   387 –99,    402 –3,     612 –14

Reformation in,  387 ,   402 ,   518 ,   670 –73,    686 ,   753

Roman   Catholic    recusants   in,  670 ,   675 ,   675 ,   677 ,   678 ,   679 ,   686 ,   742

Sumer   Canon   and,     387 –92,    394 ,   397 ,   399 ,   408 ,   419 ,   457

Tallis  and,     673 –75

twinsong    and,     392 ,   394 –96,    408

vernacular  song    and,     387 –95,    419 –20,    741 –51

Vikings and,     392 –93,    399

votive  antiphons   and,     94

See also    London

Greater Doxology. See Gloria

Greater Perfect System, 70 , 77

Great Schism (papacy), 278 , 281 , 310 –14, 348 , 423 –24

Greek drama, 780 , 799

monodist    re-creations    and,     822 –23,    832

Greek (Hellenistic) music theory, 29 –35, 32 –33, 32 , 69 –70

alphabetic  notation,    17 ,    77

ethos   concept and,     38 ,    131 ,   732 ,   815

Greater Perfect System,  70 ,    77