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| 350 |
Foundation of Schola Cantorum for church song, Rome. |
| 386 |
Hymn singing introduced by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. |
| 390 |
The First “Hallelujah” hymns sung in the Christian Churches. |
| 450 |
First use of alternative singing between the precentor and community at Roman Church services, patterned after Jewish traditions. |
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| 500 |
Boethius writes “ De Institutione Musica” |
| 500 |
In Peru, flutes, tubas and drums in use. |
| 521 |
Boethius introduces Greek musical letter notation to the West. |
| 600 |
Pope Gregory orders the compilation of church chants, titled “Antiphonar”. |
| 600 |
Pope Gregory founds the Schola Cantorum in Rome. |
| 609 |
The crwth, a Celtic string insturment, appears. |
| 619 |
Chinese start to use orchestras with hundreds of players. |
| 650 |
Neumes, notation for groups of notes used in music. This system is used in the West until 1050. |
| 725 |
The court orchestra of Emperor Ming-Huang of China represents the high musical culture of the T’ang dynasty; no harmony or polyphony, five note scale without semitones; flutes, guitars, bells, gongs, drums. |
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| 744 |
Singing school established at the Monastery of Fulda. |
| 750 |
Gregorian church music is sung in Germany, France, and England. |
| 750 |
Wind Organs, originally from Byzantium, start to replace water organs in Europe. |
| 790 |
Schools for church music established at Paris, Cologne, Soissons and Metz, all under the supervision of the Schola Cantorum in Rome. |
| 800 |
Poems sung to music at Charlemagne’s court. |
| 850 |
Origin of Church Modes in music. 750 years later modes are tranformed into the major and minor scales |
| 855 |
Earliest known attempts at polyphonic music. |
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| 870 |
“Musica enchiriadis,” a musical manuscriptusing Latin letters for musical notation. |
| 889 |
Regino, Abbot of Prum, writes his treatise on church music: “De harmonica institutione” |
| 890 |
Ratbert of St. Gallen born, hymn writer and composer. |
| 900 |
Beginnings of part song in fourths, fifths and octaves. |
| 900 |
Development of neumes in musical notation. |
| 942 |
Kettledrums and trumpets brought to Europe by the Arabs. |
| 980 |
Organ with 400 pipes finished at Winchester Monastery, England. |
| 980 |
“Antiphonarium Codex Montpellier” written, important musical manuscript. |
| 990 |
Development of systematic musical notation. |
| 995 |
Guido d’Arezzo Italian music theorist and teacher born. |
| 1000 |
Musical notation improved by Guido d’Arrezo.
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Music History Timeline - Jesus to 1000 AD
