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
• ca. 510 – Boethius writes De institutione musica as one part of his "quadrivium"
• ca. 635 – Isidore of Seville compiles the Etymologiae
• ca. 795–800 – Tonary of St Riquier, the earliest Western source organized according to the eight Gregorian modes, borrowed from the Byzantine octoechos system
• 9th century – Notker the Stammerer explains the supplementary letters for neumatic notation in his Epistola ad Lantbertum
• ca. 850 – Aurelian of Réôme writes the earliest extant medieval treatise on music, Musica disciplina
• ca. 890 – compilation of the Musica enchiriadis, the earliest known treatise on polyphony
• ca. 900 – compilation of the Scolica enchiriadis, a commentary on the Musica enchiriadis
• 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

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
• 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

Births

• ca. 83 – Claudius Ptolemaeus
• ca. 480 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
• ca. 767/772 – Ishaq al-Mawsili
• ca. 840 – Notker the Stammerer
• ca. 850 – Hucbald
• ca. 850 – Tuotilo

Deaths

• 161 – Claudius Ptolemaeus
• ca. 524 – Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
• 4 April 636 – Isidore of Seville
• 864 – Hartmann of Saint Gall
• ca. 890 – Ratpert of Saint Gall
• 915 – Regino of Prüm
• 27 April 915 – Tuotilo
• 6 April 919 – Notker the Stammerer
• 20 June 930 – Hucbald of St. Amand

See also

• Timeline of musical events

Sources

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