“northern,” 723 , 724 –33
notational visual puns and, 778
Palestrina and, 632 , 642 , 746
poetic style of, 724
polyphony and, 354 , 356 , 364 , 800 –801, 816 , 817 , 818
sensuality of, 738 , 772
sixteenth-century revival of, 722 –51
structure of, 352 , 374 , 724 , 813
trecento-style example of, 356 –59
two types of, 817
ultimate stage of, 738 –41
“wild bird” songs and, 359 –64
madrigali spirituali, 632
Madrigals to Five Voices: Selected out of the best approved Italian authors (Morley), 746
Ma fin est mon commencement (Machaut), 327 –30, 328
Magnificat, 11 , 686
magnus (Tinctoris genre ranking), 459 , 460
Magnus, Saint, 393
Magnus Liber (Leonin attrib.), 183 , 184
revision of (Perotin attrib.), 186
Mahu, Stephan, 762 , 765
Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott, 762 , 764
Ma joie premeraine (Guyot), 135
Majorana, Cristoforo, 454
major-minor tonal system, 99 , 101 , 394 , 596
Glareanus and, 553 –54
ground bass and, 627
signs for, 253
See also minor mode
major scale, 101
major second, 495
Malatesta family, 281
Mal un muta per effecto (Cara), 695 –96, 697 , 699
Malvezzi, Cristofano, 804
“Man at Arms.” See Homme Armé, L’
Manetti, Giannozzo, 285 , 286
manger plays, 52
Manicheism, 116