musical Mariolatry and, 501
syncopated counterpoint and, 368
vernacular genres and, 526 –34
virtuoso improvisation and, 536 –41
See also Renaissance
fifth equivalence, 151 , 495
fifth mode. See spondaic meter,
fifths. See circle of fifths; pentachord; V-I cadence,
fifth voice, 597
figural music. See polyphony,
figured (figuralis) song, 439
figured bass. See continuo,
finals, 73 –76, 77 –79
C and A as, 553 –54, 572 , 587 , 592
four, 73 –74, 76 , 77 –78, 99 , 587
parallel doubling and, 152
three, 99
fin’ amors,
conventions of, 108 –9, 111
French variant, 118
Machaut refinement of, 291 –98
Finck, Hermann, 589
fine amours. See fin’ amors,
Fines amouretes ai (Adam), 124 –25
fioritura (florid singing), 356
First book of ballets to five voyces, The (Morley), 746
First Crusade, 96
First Delphic Hymn, 33
first-inversion triads, 406
first mode. See trochaic meter
first practice. See stile antico
Fischer, Kurt von, 352
five-note scale. See pentatonic scale,
V-I cadence, 409 , 447 , 469 , 470 –71
fixed tune. See cantus firmus
flagellants (flagellanti), 133 –34
Flanders. See Belgium,