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1st millennium BC in music – 1st millennium in music – 11th century in music
Events
ca. 150 – Claudius Ptolemaeus writes his treatise HarmonicsRichter 2001 5
ca. 510 – Boethius writes De institutione musica as one part of his "quadrivium"Bower 2001
ca. 635 – Isidore of Seville compiles the EtymologiaeO'Connor 1910
ca. 795–800 – Tonary of St Riquier, the earliest Western source organized according to the eight Gregorian modes, borrowed from the Byzantine octoechos systemPowers and Wiering 2001 1(ii)
9th century – Notker the Stammerer explains the supplementary letters for neumatic notation in his Epistola ad LantbertumHiley 2001
ca. 850 – Aurelian of Réôme writes the earliest extant medieval treatise on music, Musica disciplinaBellingham 2001
ca. 890 – compilation of the Musica enchiriadis, the earliest known treatise on polyphonyErickson 2001
ca. 900 – compilation of the Scolica enchiriadis, a commentary on the Musica enchiriadisErickson 2001
ca. 908–915 – Regino of Prüm writes De harmonica institutione, the first full tonary for the texts of the liturgy, at St. Martin of Trier Sanderson 1982 54, 58, 61
Compositions
ca. 1st century – Seikilos epitaph, the oldest surviving complete piece of music
late 3rd century – Oxyrhynchus hymn, the earliest known Christian hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notationPöhlmann and West 2001 192
387 – Te Deum, early Christian hymn
ca. 6th–7th century – Jieshi Diao Youlan No. 5, Chinese guqin melody, oldest extant substantial written melody
ca. 9th–10th century – Gregorian chants first used (see list of Gregorian chants)
884 – Liber Hymnorum completed by Notker the Stammerer at the Abbey of Saint Gall in SwitzerlandHiley 2001
Births
ca. 83 – Claudius PtolemaeusRichter 2001
1st century - Mesomedes
ca. 480 – Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusBower 2001
ca. 767/772 – Ishaq al-MawsiliNeubauer 2001
ca. 840 – Notker the StammererHiley 2001
ca. 850 – HucbaldChartier 2001
ca. 850 – Tuotilo
Deaths
161 – Claudius PtolemaeusRichter 2001
ca. 524 – Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusBower 2001
4 April 636 – Isidore of SevilleO'Connor 1910
864 – Hartmann of Saint GallPlanchart 2001a
ca. 890 – Ratpert of Saint GallPlanchart 2001a
915 – Regino of PrümApel 1958 54
27 April 915 – TuotiloPlanchart 2001b
6 April 919 – Notker the StammererHiley 2001
20 June 930 – Hucbald of St. AmandWeakland 1956 68
See also
Timeline of musical events
References
Sources
30em Apel 1958 Apel, Willi. 1958. Gregorian Chant. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press.
Bellingham 2001 Bellingham, Jane. 2001. "Aurelian of Réôme [Aurelianus Reomensis]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Bower 2001 Bower, Calvin. 2001. "Boethius [Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Chartier 2001 Chartier, Yves. 2001. "Hucbald of St Amand". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Clark 1926 Clark, James Midgley. 1926. The Abbey of St Gall as a Centre of Literature and Art. Cambridge: The University Press.
Erickson 2001 Erickson, Raymond. 2001. "Musica enchiriadis, Scholia enchiriadis". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Hiley 2001 Hiley, David. 2001. "Notker". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
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O'Connor 1910 O'Connor, John Bonaventure. 1910. "St. Isidore of Seville". The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company (accessed 12 September 2014).
Planchart 2001a Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 2001a. "St Gallen". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Planchart 2001b Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 2001b. "Tuotilo [Tutilo]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Pöhlmann and West 2001 Pöhlmann, Egert, and Martin L. West. 2001. Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 0-19-815223-X.
Powers and Wiering 2001 Powers, Harold S., and Frans Wiering. 2001. "Mode, §II: Medieval Modal Theory". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
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Richter 2001 Richter, Lukas. 2001. "Ptolemy [Klaudios Ptolemaios; Claudius Ptolemaeus]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
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Weakland 1956 Weakland, Rembert. 1956. "Hucbald as Musician and Theorist". The Musical Quarterly 42, no. 1 (January): 66–84.
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