Nobilis, humilis (Nordic hymn), 393 –94, 393
Noblitt, Thomas, 578 –79, 583 , 584
Non avràma’ pietà (Landini), 368 –71, 373 –74
nondiatonic modes (ancient Greek), 730 , 732
Non moriar sed vivam,
Luther setting of, 756 , 758
Sennfl setting of, 757Non so qual i’ mi voglia (Lorenzo), 366 , 367
Non vos relinquam (Byrd), 686 –87, 688
Norman Conquest (1066), 6 , 397 , 397 , 419
Normandy, 421
Normans, 6 , 41 , 50 , 106 , 397 , 419
Norsemen. See Vikings
Northumbria, 392 –94
Norway, 392 –93
Norwich, Bishop of, 423
Norworth, Jack, 19
Nos qui vivimus (sequence), polyphonic setting of, 149
nota simplex (free-standing note), 187 , 192 , 197 , 199 , 212 , 217
notation,
alphabetic, 17 , 17 , 33 , 45 , 99 –100
Ars Nova breakthrough in, 248 –87, 355
ars subtilior complexity, 338 , 339 –42, 345 , 355 –56
Babylonian, 31 –32
basso continuo, 809 , 811
of beats, 251
chant, 1 –2, 214
of coloration, 266 , 269
of conductus, 199 –205
of counterpoint, 163 , 165
Daseian, 47
double, 60 , 210
Ex semine clausula, 209 , 210 , 211 , 212
following practice, 1 –2, 184 –85
Franconian, 212 –17, 234 –35, 355
Frankish pitch, 47
Frankish polyphonic, 45