1st millennium in music
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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 Harmonics[1]
- ca. 510 – Boethius writes De institutione musica as one part of his "quadrivium"[2]
- ca. 635 – Isidore of Seville compiles the Etymologiae[3]
- ca. 795–800 – Tonary of St Riquier, the earliest Western source organized according to the eight Gregorian modes, borrowed from the Byzantine octoechos system[4]
- 9th century – Notker the Stammerer explains the supplementary letters for neumatic notation in his Epistola ad Lantbertum[5]
- ca. 850 – Aurelian of Réôme writes the earliest extant medieval treatise on music, Musica disciplina[6]
- ca. 890 – compilation of the Musica enchiriadis, the earliest known treatise on polyphony[7]
- ca. 900 – compilation of the Scolica enchiriadis, a commentary on the Musica enchiriadis[7]
- 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 [8]
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 notation[9]
- 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 Switzerland[5]
Births
- ca. 83 – Claudius Ptolemaeus[10]
- 1st century - Mesomedes
- ca. 480 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius[2]
- ca. 767/772 – Ishaq al-Mawsili[11]
- ca. 840 – Notker the Stammerer[5]
- ca. 850 – Hucbald[12]
- ca. 850 – Tuotilo
Deaths
- 161 – Claudius Ptolemaeus[10]
- ca. 524 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius[2]
- 4 April 636 – Isidore of Seville[3]
- 864 – Hartmann of Saint Gall[13]
- ca. 890 – Ratpert of Saint Gall[13]
- 915 – Regino of Prüm[14]
- 27 April 915 – Tuotilo[15]
- 6 April 919 – Notker the Stammerer[5]
- 20 June 930 – Hucbald of St. Amand[16]