universities and, 148
secular music, 689
blurred line with sacred music of, 105 –6, 128 , 131 , 136 , 311 , 532 –34
cantilena and, 298 –301, 311
composer attribution for, 172
earliest literate, 105 –45
Grocheio’s social theory and, 208
Lasso and, 713 , 714 –21
Lutheran chorale adaptations of, 759
Machaut and, 289 –307
as Mass cantus firmus basis, 483 –97
motet and, 236 , 259
trecento and, 351 , 383
vernacular song and, 99 , 108 –45, 351 , 694 –709
See also instrumental music; madrigal; opera
Sederunt principes et adversum me loqueebantur (Pérotin), 173
Segni, Julio, 607 , 611 –12
Se j’ai ame (French motet), 218 –19, 218
Se je chant mains (canon), 331 –33, 364
Se la face ay pale (Du Fay), 498
self-accompaniment, 132
self-analysis, 383
self-interest, 765
self-made man, Florentine elite as, 383
Selva di varia ricreatione (Vecchi), 746
semantics. See words-music relationship,
semibreve, 217 , 231 –32, 233 , 235 , 236 , 237 –38, 239 , 244 , 251 , 260
beat and, 251 –52
Giovanni madrigal grouping of, 363 , 364
rationalization of, 249
red notes and, 266 , 340 –41, 410
subdivision of, 260 –61, 355 , 364
semicrome (sixteenth note), 785
semiminims (sixteenth notes), 515
semiotics, introversive, 643
semitone, 74 , 99
diatonic vs. chromatic, 729