Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

fermata, 433 , 611

Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 677 –78

Ferrante Gonzaga of Mantua, 715

Ferrara, 523 , 544 , 545 , 559 –63

Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein’ (Agricola), 762 , 763

Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein’ (Calvisius), 768 –69

Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein’, (Luther), 760 , 761 ,

Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein’ (Mahu), 762 , 764

festival song, English, 420

feudalism, 107 –43, 406

basis   of,  107 ,   141

cathedral   clerical    hierarchy   and,     169 ,   207 –8

eastward    progression of,  143

hierarchy   in,  107

Protestant  Reformation as  anti-,   753

Roman   Catholic    hierarchy   and,     772

urbanization’s  inroads on,  120 ,   143

Févin, Antoine de, 555 , 573 –76

Missa   super   Ave Maria,   574 –76

Ficino, Marsilio, 615 –16, 798

fiddlers “In seculum,” 232 , 233

madrigal    accompaniment,   352

medieval,    131 ,   132 ,   141

virtuosos   improvisation   by,  536 ,   538

fiefs, 107

fifteenth century,

cyclic  Mass    Ordinaries,  459 –500

emulative   composition and,     474 –75,    484 ,   486 ,   493 ,   497 –98

English style   and,     422 –52,    461

V-I bass    introduction    and,     471

gymel,   395

harmonic    changes and,     471 –72

instrumental    music   and,     536 –46

international   style   of,  378 ,   380 ,   384 ,   422 ,   453 –59

Italian arts    patronage   and,     277 –81

motet   and,     280 –87,    399 –433,   461 ,   501 –26

musical coloration  and,     266