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1st millennium BC in music – 1st millennium in music – 11th century in music

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Events

  • ca. 150 – Claudius Ptolemaeus writes his treatise Harmonics (Richter 2001).5
  • ca. 510 – Boethius writes De institutione musica as one part of his "quadrivium" (Bower 2001).
  • ca. 635 – Isidore of Seville compiles the Etymologiae (O'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 system (Powers and Wiering 2001, 1(ii))
  • 9th century – Notker the Stammerer explains the supplementary letters for neumatic notation in his Epistola ad Lantbertum (Hiley 2001).
  • ca. 850 – Aurelian of Réôme writes the earliest extant medieval treatise on music, Musica disciplina (Bellingham 2001).
  • ca. 890 – compilation of the Musica enchiriadis, the earliest known treatise on polyphony (Erickson 2001).
  • ca. 900 – compilation of the Scolica enchiriadis, a commentary on the Musica enchiriadis (Erickson 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)

    • Classical music

  • late 3rd century – Oxyrhynchus hymn, the earliest known Christian hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation (Pöhlmann and West 2001, 192)
  • ca. 9th–10th century - Gregorian chants first used.
  • 884 – Liber Hymnorum completed by Notker the Stammerer at the Abbey of Saint Gall in Switzerland (Hiley 2001).

    • Births

  • ca. 83 – Claudius Ptolemaeus (Richter 2001)
  • ca. 480 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Bower 2001)
  • ca. 840 – Notker the Stammerer (Hiley 2001)
  • ca. 850 – Hucbald (Chartier 2001)
  • ca. 850 – Tuotilo

    • Deaths

  • 161 – Claudius Ptolemaeus (Richter 2001)
  • ca. 524 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Bower 2001)
  • 4 April 636 – Isidore of Seville (O'Connor 1910)
  • 864 – Hartmann II of St. Gall (Planchart 2001a)
  • ca. 890 – Ratpert of St. Gall (Planchart 2001a)
  • 915 – Regino of Prüm (Apel 1958, 54)
  • 27 April 915 – Tuotilo (Planchart 2001b)
  • 6 April 919 – Notker the Stammerer (Hiley 2001)
  • 20 June 930 – Hucbald of St. Amand (Weakland 1956, 68)

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