164

[Transcriber's Note: The letter "N" is absent from the Index.
Possible entries include:
Namur, Naples, Narcissus, Naumann, Nero Neri, Netherlands,
Noirville, Novellara, Nuremberg.]

Oboe, 145
Opera buffa, germs of, 188
Orchestra, in "Sacre Rappresentazioni," 30, 31
at Mantua, 44
in first secular drama, 89, 136 et seq.
Striggio's, 138, 185, 186
in other early lyric plays, 161, 162, 174, 175, 177, 199
"Orfeo," performed at Mantua, 52, 55, 68
Italian estimates of, 55, 56
importance of its production, 57, 66
its lyric character, 66, 77, 79
description of poem, 76 et seq.
how written, 72
Sismondi's comments on, 73
Symonds on, 74
editions compared, 75, 79, 80
how performed, 85 et seq.
examination of its music, 98 et seq.
choruses, 101, 116
solo parts, 101, 117 et seq.
solo parts, frottola as basis of, 124
instrumental parts, 101, 129, 136 et seq., 144
Orpheus, embodiment of Arcadian ideal, 63, 65

Paganism, Italian medieval, 62
Pageant of St. John's Day, Florence, 28
Pageants, relation to "Sacre Rappresentazioni," 27
Part singing, its popularity in fifteenth century, 103
Passion, early performances of, 17
French fourteenth century version, 17
Pastoral drama, 170
Peri, Jacopo, 216, 219
Petrarch, 59
Philosophy, its effect on medieval literature