instrumental tour de force and, 538 –39
Italian-style, 341
Italian vernacular song and, 351 –52, 356 –59
Italian vs. French systems of, 355 –56
key system and, 75 –76
Machaut and, 327 –28, 328
modal meter and, 176 –77, 204 , 215
modern staff, 74 , 105
modern vs. mensural, 253
of motet, 209 –11, 214 –17
neume antecedents of, 14
Notre Dame school, 184 , 186 , 212 , 214
oldest extant, 76
oral/aural learning vs., 17
orchestration and, 782 –86
Philippus treatise on, 337 –42, 341
pitch and, 16 –17, 76
polyphonic, 122 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 166
quadratic, 22 , 23 , 114 , 214
Regule de proportionibus on, 536
rhythm fixture and, 114 , 131 , 133 , 185 –86, 204 –5, 214
shapes and, 176 , 177
staff invention and, 16 , 102 , 105
syllabic, 39 , 41 , 60
of syncopation, 266
tabulature and, 606
trecento, 354 –59
universal European system of, 62
visual effects of, 778 –79, 801
Vitry and, 262 , 265 , 337
Western Christian, 1 –2, 5 –7note shapes. See notation
notes inégales (unequal notes), 261
Notitia artis musicae. See Ars novae musicae
Notker Balbulus (Notker the Stammerer), 5 , 41 , 42 –43, 42 , 51 , 71 , 90
Notre Dame, collegiate church of (Condé-sur-l’Escaut), 563
Notre Dame Cathedral (Antwerp), 454