plagal modal form, 74 , 75 , 76 , 83 , 554
plagal scales, 74
plagiarism, 746
plainchant. See chant,
Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (Morley), 694 , 743
planctus cigni (song), 111 –12, 112
planctus settings, 111 –4212
planh (troubadour genre), 107
Plato, 17 , 70 , 281 , 615 , 831
artistic creation and, 552
essences and, 37 , 827
forms and, 69 , 71
harmony of the spheres and, 152
musical modes and, 801 –2
social aspect of music and, 208Platonic Academy (Florence), 615
Play of Daniel, 93 –94, 95 –96
Play of Herod, 93
Play of Robin and Marion (Adam), 127 , 128 , 233 , 349
plica, 181 , 197
poesia per musica (bucolic poetry), 351
Poetics (Aristotle), 551
poetry,
affective style and, 737 –38
Christine of Pisane, 446 –47, 448
conductus setting of, 198 –205
Deschamps on, 337
difficult vs. accessible, 115 –16
English song settings of, 742 –51
formes fixes and, 125 –26
goliardic, 138
Hildegard of Bingen, 90 –92
Italian recitation of, 697
Italian settings of, 666 , 722 –23, 736 –37
Lasso sibylline prophecy text, 719
Machaut, 289 –90, 297 , 307 , 332
madrigal text, 354 , 356 –57, 723 –25, 727 , 728 , 736 –37, 739 , 742 , 749 , 802 , 813 , 816 –17, 818 , 819