[INDEX]

Agility, vocal[214]
Alemannia, Rudolfo de[41]
Alessandro, Gian Andrea di[46]
Ambros, August Wilhelm[107]
"Amfiparnaso"[191] et seq.
"Apollo and the Python," spectacular intermezzo[174]
Arcadia, the Italian[62] et seq.
Archilei, Vittoria[216], [218]
Argyropoulos, John[69]
"Arion," spectacular intermezzo[175]
Ariosto, performance of his "Suppositi"[90], [136]
Ballata[76], [116], [144]
"Ballet Comique de la Reine"[178]
Banchieri, Adriano[198]
Banquets, music at[139]
Basso continuo[232]
Bati, Luca[30]
Beccari[170]
Bembo, Pietro[61]
Boccaccio[59]
Botta, Bergonzo, festal play by[161]
Busnois, Antoine[115]
Caccini, Giulio[172]
"Nuove Musiche," its aim[221] et seq.
"Calandra," performance of[96]
Cantori a liuto[119], [121] et seq.
Carnival Song (canto carnascialesco)[76], [105], [116]
Casella[119]
Castiglione[61], [114]
performance of his "Tirsi"[164]
Cavaliere, Emilio del, first recitatives written by[177]
Chant, music of liturgical drama[11]
disappearance from "Sacre Rappresentazioni"[24]
Chartreux, Jean le[40]
Chorus, in first secular drama[89], [116]
Comedy, influence on lyric drama[179] et seq.
Vecchi's theories[192]
Compère, Loyset[115]
Concerts, early[142]
Corteccia[119]
Costumes in early lyric plays[92]
Dance, dramatic, in church ritual[2], [3]
in open-air plays[16]
orchestral music for[144]
executed to concealed chorus[172]
characteristic national[176]
Dante[58]
Della Viola, Alfonso[170]
Della Viola, Gian Pietro[45]
Des Prés, Josquin[104]
Disciplinati di Gesu Cristo[22]
"Divozione"[25] et seq.
Drama, lyric, sources[4]
open-air religious[13]
at Florence[19]
revival in Europe[54]
causes of disappearance[53]
Dramatic dialogue, in madrigal drama[184]
Dramatic element, in early church music[2]
in ceremonials[4], [5]
"Esaltazione della Croce," sacred play[29]
orchestra in[138]
"Euridice," Peri's[219]
Feltre, Vittorino da[37], [41]
Ferrara, musical relations with Mantua[46]
Festa, Constanzo[165]
Fête of the Ass[14]
Ficino, Marsilio[70]
Florence, reform of dramatic music[220], [234]
Florid element, in early church music[1]
its disappearance[2]
in madrigal[214]
in early operas[231]
Frottola[76], [101], [102], [104] et seq., [122]
distinguished from madrigal[108], [112]
arranged for solo voice[124] et seq.
Gaffori, Franchino[43]
Gonzaga, house of[35] et seq.
Gian Francesco[37]
Ludovico[38]
Grecian ideals in Italian literature[54], [58] et seq., [62] et seq.
Gualterotti, spectacular festal play[171]
"Harmony of the Spheres," intermezzo by Cavaliere[173]
Harmony, modern begun[233]
Individuality, medium of expression sought[155], [157]
found[220] et seq.
Intermezzi, spectacular in 1589[173]
Intermezzo[91]
Isaak, Heinrich[107]
Italian, Latin preferred to[59]
Poliziano's use of[72]
Italian music, defining its character[149]
Italian thought, state of in sixteenth century[181], [209], [210], [211]
Italy, lack of national unity[60]
Kallistos, Andronicus[69]
Landino[61], [69]
Lauds[21] et seq.
music of[23]
development of[25]
Lavagnolo, Lorenzo, teacher of dance at Mantua[45]
Lighting in early plays[95]
Liturgical drama[1] et seq.
early examples[6] et seq.
its longevity[9]
character of music[5], [6], [10]
French as related to opera[12]
costumes, etc.[26]
stage used[26]
Luzzaschi, music to "Pastor Fido"[172]
Lyra di braccio[134]
Lyre[130]
Madrigal[102], [104], [105], [112]
Italian[148]
solo[168], [216], [217], [218], [219], [223]
florid element in[214]
ornamented by singer[217], [218]
Madrigal drama, transition to from frottola[147] et seq.
in maturity[191] et seq.
Madrigal dramas[166]
comedy in[179] et seq.
dialogue in[181], [198] et seq., [201], [203]
instruments in[185], [199]
manner of performance[198] et seq.
voices in[200]
solo in[201]
unintelligibility of text[213]
Mantegna[38], [39], [40]