Mass chants, 13 , 23 –25, 47
monastic, 9 –12
Office and, 20 –23
pre-Christian Jewish, 7 –8
tonaries and, 72 –76psalm tones, 20 , 21 –22, 28 , 29
Psalter (Book of Psalms), 7 –8, 10 , 12
pseudodactyls, 708 , 787
pseudomotet style, 326
Pseudo-Neidhardt, 137 , 140
Ptolemy, 70 , 799
public concerts. See concerts,
published music. See music publishing
Puclete/Je langui (motet), 236
Pulci, Luigi, 697
punctum (point shape), 131 , 214 –17
puns, musical, 331 , 456 , 456
Du Fay and, 511 , 512
notational visual, 777 –79Purgatorio (Dante), 352
“purposeless purposiveness” (Kantian concept), 541
Pycard, Jean (alias Vaux), 410 –11
Pycard’s Gloria, 409 –11, 413 –15, 418 , 433
Pythagoras, 29 , 30 , 147
Pythagorean consonances, 29 –31, 30 , 70 , 154 , 187 , 282 , 284 , 410 , 587
Busnoys Mass and, 485 , 495
Busnoys motet and, 456 , 457 , 495
deduction of diatonic pitch set from, 31Q
quadratic notation, 22 , 23 , 114 , 214
quadrivium, 4 –5, 16 , 69 , 175 , 248 , 282 , 424
music’s ranking in, 550quadruplum. See organum quadruplum
“Qual nova meraviglia!” (Peri), 827 –28
Quam pulchra es (Dunstable), 429 –33, 462
quantitative meter, 175 –76
Quant j’ay au cuer (Busnoys), 543