Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

British,     406

improvisation, 17

harmonic,    392 ,   394 ,   406 ,   434 –39,    452

as  instrumental    vocal   accompaniment,   307

jazz    and,     17 ,    307 ,   536

Lutheran    cantus  firmus  and,     762

oral    tradition   and,     17 –18,     666 –67,    821

organists   and,     437 ,   607 ,   617 ,   781

ornamentation   and,     783 ,   821

polyphonic,  758

ricercari   and,     606 –7

vernacular  song    and,     697

virtuoso    fifteenth-century,   536 –41

Incarnation, 772 –73

“incomplete neighbor” (counterpoint), 430

India, Sigismondo d’, 818 –19

Piange, madonna,     819 –20

individualism, 548 , 549

Protestant  Reformation and,     753 ,   765 ,   771

indulgences, 315 , 316 , 753

In ecclesiis benedicite Domino (G. Gabrieli), 783 –86

Infelix ego (Byrd), 679

Inferno (Dante), 803

In hydraulis (Busnoys), 456 –57, 495 , 500

In illo tempore loquente Jesu ad turbas (Gombert), 590 –93

Innocent III, Pope, 112

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (Isaac), 759 , 760

inordinato, 724

Inquisition, 653 , 772

inscription. See written music

In seculum breve, 232

In seculum longum, 232

“In seculum” melisma, 222 –24, 227 –33, 229

textless    pieces  to,  229 –33,    233 ,   424

In seculum viellatoris, 232 , 541

instrumental music, 534 –46

ars perfecta    and,     606 ,   617 –28

big band    battle-pieces,   787 –89