Madrigals, 136, 142 _Maestro di Capella_, 142, 147, 148 Maggini, Giovanni Paolo, 21, 23-24, 64, 141, 179 _Magic flute_, 77, 114, 127 _Manfred_, overture, 114 Mantua, Duke of, 141 Marais, Marin, 165, 169-172 Marchand, Jean Baptiste, 168 _Marche Slave_, 95 Marie Antoinette, 194 Marly, 155, 156 Martini, Padre, quoted, 193 _Maximilian, Triumph of_, 152 Mazarin, Cardinal, 152, 157 _Mazeppa_, 41, 102 Mazzocchi, Vergilio, 148; school of, 148-149 Medea, 94 Medici, Ferdinand de’, 298 _Meistersinger, Die_, 62, 70, 77, 109, 127, 257, 264 Melodic instruments, 85, 86, 106 _Melusine_, 101, 241 Mendelssohn, 6, 62, 77, 94, 96, 101, 105, 240-243; conducting, 242-243 Mersenne, quoted, 154, 156, 292 _Messiah_ (Handel’s), 188, 191 “Messiah,” violin, 30, 32 Metsu, 55 Meyerbeer, 82, 90, 130, 289 _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (Mendelssohn’s), 6-8, 77, 95, 105, 117, 240, 241 Military Symphony, 93 _Modern Music Master_, 293 Molière, 160 Monodic music, 140 Monteverde, Claudio, 141-148, 295 Montpensier, Mademoiselle de, 159-160 Mozart, Leopold, 207 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 51, 69, 77, 93, 100, 105, 114, 127, 199, 207-214, 262, 267, 289, 290 _Mozartiana_, 267 “Music of the Future,” 243, 253, 255 Music of the Renaissance, 48, 152, 185 Music of the Seventeenth Century, 58 “Musicians’ musician,” 186 _Musurgia_, 292 _Naggareh_, 122 “Nakers,” 122 Newman, Ernest, quoted, 244-245, 246-247, 265 _New World Symphony_, 77, 90, 101 _Nibelungen Ring_, 256, 259 _Ninth Symphony_, 52, 69, 88, 94, 96, 114, 120, 121 _Nuance_, 192 _Nut Cracker Suite_, 78, 102, 267 Oberon, 101, 106, 236, 237 Oboe, 83-88, 89, 189; air-column, 85; compass, 86; construction, 85; keys, 87; playing of, 86; reed, 86; scale, 86; voice, 84 _Oboe d’amore_, 84, 186, 264 _Oboe di caccia_, 84, 90, 186 _Ode to Joy_, 70 Ole Bull, 22, 29 “Olifant,” 103 Opera, dawn of, 139 Opera, Italian, 139, 142-152 Operas, Gluck’s, 196; Handel’s, 188 Ophicleide, 116, 117, 247 Oratorios, Handel’s, 188 Orchestra, 3-8, 42, 65, 68; Bach, 192, 209; Beethoven, 230; Berlioz, 247; Cesti, 151; Corelli, 180; Dresden, 234, 235, 256; Eleventh-century, 273; French, 153; Gluck, 194; Handel, 189, 192, 209; Haydn, 199, 200, 223; Landi, 149-150; Louis XIV, 155; Lully, 160, 161-164, 172; Mannheim, 210; Monteverde, 143-144; Mozart, 223, 229; Scarlatti, 183; Venetian, 150; Wagner, 258 Orchestral palette, 209-210 Orchestral solos, 186 Orchestration, Debussy, 270-271; Liszt, 255; Strauss, 263-264; Tschaikowsky, 267; Wagner, 257-258 _Orfeo_, Gluck, 69, 78, 88, 94, 196; Monteverde, 141-146 Organ, 143, 151, 186, 199 Organists, German, 185 Otello, 70, 82 Ottoboni, Cardinal, 180