musical patterns as aid to, 162
nonnotated music and, 17 , 23
Notre Dame vocal performance from, 184 , 186
repetition and, 64
for staff notes, 102 –3
See also oral tradition
mensural notation,
Ars Nova, 248 –87, 254
Franconiann, 212 –17, 234 –35, 238 , 248
“In seculum” instrumental motets, 229 –33, 229
invention of, 214 , 248
modern vs., 253
trecento, 354
mensuration canon, 477 –78
Merbecke, John, 672 , 673
mercantile economy, 143 , 630
England and, 678
Florence and, 367 , 368
music publishing and, 691 , 694 , 713 , 746 , 782
as Protestant Reformation underlying factor, 753 –54, 765
meritocracy, 121
Merkley, Paul, 558 , 559
Merulo, Claudio, 787
Messe de Nostre Dame, La (Machaut), 307 , 317 –26
reconstructed “original” version of, 325
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 812 , 824
metaphor, musical, 733 –34
meter, 37
Ars Nova concept of, 251 –55
classification systems, 176 , 197 , 355 –56
hymn, 47
modern concept of, 251
Notre Dame polyphony and, 175 –83, 187 , 197
quantitative, 175 –76
trecento madrigal, 356 , 359 , 363
troubadour songs, 114 –15
versus, 86 –92
method books, instrumental, 620 –21