emulation vs. imitation in, 474 –75
genius and, 551 , 552 , 570 , 608
German national identity and, 141
historiographic approach to, 144 –45
improvisation and, 17
legendary status and, 547 –48
linear historical view of, 245 , 247 –48, 252 , 580 , 738 –39
medieval sense of, 267 , 270
mimesis and, 363
Musica and, 69 –76, 148 , 248 , 552
Palestrina legend and, 653
political context of, 653 , 673
Romantic concept of, 337
as seeking and finding, 606
sense of style and, 267
social purpose of, 144
style-based judgments of, 145
stylistic evolution and, 245 , 247 –48, 267 –70
subtle cleverness and, 327 –42
synthesis of words and music in, 337
timelessness and, 65
virtuosity and, 330 . See also virtuosityart-prose, 39 , 50
arts criticism. See musical analysis,
arts patronage. See patronage,
Artusi, Giovanni Maria, 735 –36
Artusi, overo Delle imperfettioni della moderna musica, L’ (treatise), 735 –36
assonance, 44
Assumption, 523 , 566
Astra tenenti (Play of Daniel conducti), 95
astrology, 615 , 616
Athens, 798
atomus, 253
atonality, 472 , 729 –30
Attaingnant, Pierre, 692 –93, 692 , 694 , 706 , 710 , 786
Attic Greek amphora, 32
auctoritas (authority), 475