[100] F. J. Fétis: _Hist. Gén. de la Musique_, V. 308. [101] Joh. Wolf: _Geschichte der Mensuralnotation von 1260-1450_ (2 vols., 1904). [102] _Cf._ H. Riemann: _Handbuch der Musikgeschichte_ I², pp. 305 ff. [103] H. Riemann: _Op. cit._, I², pp. 305 ff. [104] H. Riemann: _Op. cit._, I², pp. 305 ff. [105] J. A. Symonds: 'Renaissance in Italy,’ Vol. II. [106] During 1471 to 1488 Josquin was at the papal chapel in Rome. His popularity there is illustrated by the following episode. When a motet was performed in a distinguished social circle it passed almost without notice until the hearers became aware that Josquin was its composer, when all hands promptly proceeded to express their admiration of it. [107] B. Chioggia (Venice), 1517; d. Venice, 1590; was a pupil of Willaert. In 1565 succeeded Cipriano de Rore as _maestro_ at St Mark’s. Most of his compositions have been lost. His theoretical works were of the greatest importance. Like M. Hauptmann later, he already recognized but one kind of third, the major, and distinguishes the thirds of the major and minor triad not by size but by position, upon which principle he based the entire theory of harmony. Only the introduction of the thorough bass soon after, which reckoned all intervals from the bass up, prevented a development of this rational theory. (Cf. Riemann: _Gesch. der Musiktheorie_, pp. 369 ff.) [108] _Cf._ Chap. X, pp. 284 ff. [109] The frottola 'stood midway between the strict and complicated madrigal and the _villotta_ or _villanella_, which was a mere harmonization of a tune; and in fact as the use of counterpoint increased it disappeared, its better element went into the madrigal, its lower into the _villanella_.--Grove’s 'Dictionary.’ 'If we consider the frottole as contrapuntal exercises they appear very meagre. If, however, we consider them as attempts to free the _cantabile_ melody, the declamatory rhythm which is analogous to the verse metre, from the imitative web, and as an attempt to endow musical pieces with architectural symmetry in the construction of its consecutive (not simultaneous) elements they are significant phenomena.’--Ambros. [110] 'History of Music,’ III, 303. [111] The inscription _Cromatici, a note nere_ on the title page of some of di Rore’s madrigals, which has been thought to indicate the chromatic nature of these compositions, refers, as Riemann clearly shows (_Handbuch der Musikgeschichte_ II¹. 411), simply to the color of the notes, _croma_ being a current name for the eighth note since early times. [112] _Musikgeschichte in Beispielen._ Excerpt, etc., in _Handbuch der Musikgeschichte_, II¹. 407 ff.