Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

universities    and,     148

secular music, 689

blurred line    with    sacred  music   of,  105 –6,     128 ,   131 ,   136 ,   311 ,   532 –34

cantilena   and,     298 –301,   311

composer    attribution for,     172

earliest    literate,    105 –45

Grocheio’s  social  theory  and,     208

Lasso   and,     713 ,   714 –21

Lutheran    chorale adaptations of,  759

Machaut and,     289 –307

as  Mass    cantus  firmus  basis,   483 –97

motet   and,     236 ,   259

trecento    and,     351 ,   383

vernacular  song    and,     99 ,    108 –45,    351 ,   694 –709

See also    instrumental    music;  madrigal;   opera

Sederunt principes et adversum me loqueebantur (Pérotin), 173

Segni, Julio, 607 , 611 –12

Se j’ai ame (French motet), 218 –19, 218

Se je chant mains (canon), 331 –33, 364

Se la face ay pale (Du Fay), 498

self-accompaniment, 132

self-analysis, 383

self-interest, 765

self-made man, Florentine elite as, 383

Selva di varia ricreatione (Vecchi), 746

semantics. See words-music relationship,

semibreve, 217 , 231 –32, 233 , 235 , 236 , 237 –38, 239 , 244 , 251 , 260

beat    and,     251 –52

Giovanni    madrigal    grouping    of,  363 ,   364

rationalization of,  249

red notes   and,     266 ,   340 –41,    410

subdivision of,  260 –61,    355 ,   364

semicrome (sixteenth note), 785

semiminims (sixteenth notes), 515

semiotics, introversive, 643

semitone, 74 , 99

diatonic    vs. chromatic,   729