Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Paul the Deacon, 100 –101

pavan, Dowland ayre and, 742 –43

Pax! In nomine Domini (Marcabru), 113

peasant revolts, 138

peasants, dances of, 332 , 621

Peirol d’Auvergne, 228

Pellegrina, La (Bargagli), 803

penitents, 133 –34

pentachord (fifth),

canon   and,     331

in  counterpoint,    154

Diatonic    pitch   and,     30 ,    31

Dorian,  276 –77

four    species of,  73 –74

madrigal    and,     356

octave  plus,    166 ,   168

parallel    doubling    of,  150 ,   151 ,   152

as  “perfect”   interval,    149

protus  final   and,     79

tetrachord  and,     74 ,    83

See also    perfect fifth

pentatonic scale, 30

Pentecost, 12 , 49 , 436 , 686 , 758

Pepin III (the Short), King of the Franks, 2 , 3 , 5 , 13 , 40 , 64

Peraino, Judith, 220 –21

Peregrinus plays, 93

perfect (perfection), 180 , 187 , 196 , 587

Ars Nova    notation    and,     249 –50,    253 ,   254 –55

dactylic    foot    and,     191

hocket  and,     233

Zarlino harmonic    theory  and,     587

See also measure

perfected art. See ars perfecta

perfect fifth, 149 , 150 , 154 , 284

chromaticism    and,     274

parallel    doubling    at,  152

perfect fourth, 40 , 149 , 152 , 284