MUSIC 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gregorian Chant, Byzantine Music, Roman Rite
27 Sep 2016
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1: the first literate repertory in western music, Our story begins, as it must, in the middle of things. Timeline: 1200bce musical notation inscribed on a babylonian cuneiform tablet, 580-500bce pythagoras explores harmonic ratios, 450-325bce socrates, plato, and aristotle pose influential ideas on music, 391ce st. Ausutine, de musica: 500-10ce boethius, de institutione musica, 754ce pope stephen ii visits king of the franks, pepin iii, instigating the spread of roman chant. The franks were some of the earliest developers of france: 860-900ce musica enchiriadis. Greeks developed a pitch-specific musical notation: greek music was important in remembering the dead, the greeks used letters and symbols to indicate pitch and rhythm. Music in ancient greece was integral to theater, in which the chorus commented on the action of the drama and in which dance was one of the elements of the total spectacle.
