Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

musical patterns    as  aid to,  162

nonnotated  music   and,     17 ,    23

Notre   Dame    vocal   performance from,    184 ,   186

repetition  and,     64

for staff   notes,   102 –3

See also    oral    tradition

mensural notation,

Ars Nova,    248 –87,    254

Franconiann,     212 –17,    234 –35,    238 ,   248

“In seculum”    instrumental    motets,  229 –33,    229

invention   of,  214 ,   248

modern  vs.,     253

trecento,    354

mensuration canon, 477 –78

Merbecke, John, 672 , 673

mercantile economy, 143 , 630

England and,     678

Florence    and,     367 ,   368

music   publishing  and,     691 ,   694 ,   713 ,   746 ,   782

as  Protestant  Reformation underlying  factor,  753 –54,    765

meritocracy, 121

Merkley, Paul, 558 , 559

Merulo, Claudio, 787

Messe de Nostre Dame, La (Machaut), 307 , 317 –26

reconstructed   “original”  version of,  325

Metamorphoses (Ovid), 812 , 824

metaphor, musical, 733 –34

meter, 37

Ars Nova    concept of,  251 –55

classification  systems,     176 ,   197 ,   355 –56

hymn,    47

modern  concept of,  251

Notre   Dame    polyphony   and,     175 –83,    187 ,   197

quantitative,    175 –76

trecento    madrigal,    356 ,   359 ,   363

troubadour  songs,   114 –15

versus,  86 –92

method books, instrumental, 620 –21