1st millennium in music

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

Events

ca. 150 – Claudius Ptolemaeus writes his treatise Harmonics (Richter 2001).
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)

Sources

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