mediant (mediatio), 20
Medici, Antonio de’, 832
Medici, Cosimo I de’, 803
Medici, Ferdinando de’, 803 , 803
Medici, Lorenzo de’ (the Magnificent), 531 , 538 , 622 , 798
SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 823 , 834Medici, Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino (grandson), 803
Medici, Maria de’, 812
Medici family, 531 , 538 , 803 –4, 813 , 818 , 826 , 831
Medici library (Florence), 177
Medici Press, 631 , 632
medieval period. See Middle Ages,
mediocris (Tinctoris genre ranking), 459 , 460
Mei, Girolamo, 798 , 799 , 800 , 822
Meienzit (anon. “Pseudo-Neidhardt”), 137
Meissen. See Heinrich von Meissen,
Meistergesang, 140 , 141 , 142
Meisterlied (master-song), 139 –40
Meistersinger, 118 , 139 –44, 760
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die (Wagner), 139 , 141
Meisterstück (master-piece), 139
melisma, 11 , 28 , 37
Ambrosian chant, 27
Blumen, 140
Caput, 465 , 466 , 468 , 469
contrapuntal voice and, 156 , 156 , 159
embellishments, 28
English, 614
Gregorian, 28 , 228 –29
“In seculum,” 222 –24, 227 –33, 228 , 229
jubilation, 24 , 26 , 98
Kyrie, 58 –59
ligatures and, 199 , 200
madrigal, 356 , 364 , 733 , 749 , 818 , 819
neuma triplex, 37 –39
Notre Dame school and, 177 , 178 –79, 186 , 196 , 199 –200, 212 , 214
onomatopoetic, 733 , 749