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  • Epitafio de Seikilos
    211

    Epitafio de Seikilos

    Is the oldest surviving complete musical composition. It was a melody composed by a man for his deceased wife. It was written in greek. It,s in the National Museum of Dinamarca, in Copenhague.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2IR4mpf7U
  • Gregorian chant
    Jan 1, 800

    Gregorian chant

    Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred chant in Latin of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed primarily in Western and Central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
  • Jan 1, 1100

    Hildegard von Bingen

    She was a 12th-century German Benedictine nun, abbess, and polymath, recognized as a saint and doctor of the Church. She was noted for her mystical visions, her work as a writer, philosopher, composer, and scientist, and her work as a physician
  • Period: Jan 1, 1101 to Jan 1, 1300

    Ars Antiqua

    Ars antiqua, also called Ars veterum or Ars vetus, refers to the music of late medieval Europe between approximately 1170 and 1310, spanning the period of the Notre Dame School of polyphony and the years after. The first polyphonic form was the organum that adds a second voice to a Gregorian chant melody, wich moves parallel to the first.
  • Leonin
    Jan 1, 1135

    Leonin

    Leonin or Magister Leoninus is, along with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, associated with the Notre Dame School.
  • Perotin
    Jan 1, 1155

    Perotin

    Perotin was a medieval French composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. He is considered the most important composer of the Notre Dame School of Paris, where the polyphonic style began to take shape.
  • Jan 1, 1252

    Alfonso X

    Alfonso X "the Wise" was King of Castile and León from 1252 to 1284. He is known for his significant cultural and legislative work, including the codification of laws in Castilian, the founding of Castilian prose, and the promotion of the Toledo School of Translators. He was also an important economic, military, and political reformer.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1400

    Ars Nova

    Ars nova is an expression that designates musical production, both French and Italian, after the last works of the ars antiqua until the predominance of the Burgundian school, which would occupy the first place in the musical panorama of the West in the 15th century.