Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

mock debate. See tenso,


mock-naive style,


rondeau and,     122 ,   220
virelai and, 349 –50

mock-popular genres, troubadour, 113 –14


modal discant counterpoint, 179 , 472


modal meter, 176 –83, 215


modal rhythm, 176 , 177 , 179 , 180 –205, 235


Ars Nova    and,     260 –73
changes in, 245 , 249
chief shortcoming of, 199
dactylic foot and, 191 –92
Garlandia classification, 197
as mnemonic device, 78 , 184 –86
theoretical descriptions of, 186

modal theory, 105


change  to  tonal,   471 –72,    628 ,   666
chromaticism and, 273 –76
Glareanus and, 553 –54
Mei treatise on, 799
See also Frankish modal theory; Greek (Hellenistic) music theory

mode,


as  composition guide,   80 –86
concepts of, 28 –29, 76 –86, 99 –104, 111
eight medieval, 73 –76
Frankish classification of, 74 –75, 78 –80
Frankish numbering of, 77
Garlandia six-mode scheme and, 197 –98
Greek nomenclature for, 74 –75, 77 , 800 , 801 , 802
octave species and, 74
scale and, 28 –29, 75 –76, 100 –104

modern repertory. See standard repertory,


“Modo di cantar sonetti” (song), 698


Modo di fugir le cadenze, Il (Zarlino), 604 –5


modulation, 471


modus mixtus (mixed mode), definition of, 83


modus ultra mensuram, 191


Moengal (monk), 71

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