Paean, 75.
Palestrina, 176, 186, 205, 210, 246.
Pan's Pipe, 9, 10, 11, 12, 62.
Pantomime, 93, 177.
Passecaille, 181.
Passepied, 182.
Passion plays, 125, 206.
Pavane, 182.
Pentatonic, 149, 151.
Pergolesi, 210.
Peri, 209, 231.
Period, 179.
Periodicity, 24, 28, 265.
Peru, 66, 67.
Pescetti, 195.
Phrase, 179, 190.
Phrygian mode, 76, 83.
Piano, 29, 230.
Piccini, 213.
Pindar, 27, 72, 90.
Pipe, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 28, 30, 37, 44.
Pitch, 269.
Plato, 11, 49.
Plutarch, 195.
Poe, 266.
Poetry, 24.
Polacca, 182.
Polka, 183.
Polonaise, 182.
Porpora, 210.
Portuguese, 152.
Prelude, 189.
Prescott, 66.
Procrustes, 27.
Programme music, 190, 199, 203, 255.
Psalms, 34.
Psaltery, 33, 131.
Ptolemy, 85.
Purcell, 176.
Pythagoras, 49, 72, 79, 82, 97.