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]
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]

References

Sources

Apel, Willi. 1958. Gregorian Chant. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press.
Bellingham, Jane. 2001. "Aurelian of Réôme [Aurelianus Reomensis]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Bower, Calvin. 2001. "Boethius [Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Chartier, Yves. 2001. "Hucbald of St Amand". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Clark, James Midgley. 1926. The Abbey of St Gall as a Centre of Literature and Art. Cambridge: The University Press.
Erickson, Raymond. 2001. "Musica enchiriadis, Scholia enchiriadis". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Hiley, David. 2001. "Notker". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Neubauer, Eckhard (2001). "Mawṣilī, al- family". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51032. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
O'Connor, John Bonaventure. 1910. "St. Isidore of Seville". The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company (accessed 12 September 2014).
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 2001a. "St Gallen". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 2001b. "Tuotilo [Tutilo]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Pöhlmann, Egert, and Martin L. West. 2001. Documents of Ancient Greek Music: The Extant Melodies and Fragments. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-815223-X.
Powers, Harold S., and Frans Wiering. 2001. "Mode, §II: Medieval Modal Theory". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Reckow, Fritz, Edward H. Roesner, Rudolf Flotzinger, and Norman E. Smith. 2001. "Organum". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrel. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Richter, Lukas. 2001. "Ptolemy [Klaudios Ptolemaios; Claudius Ptolemaeus]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Sanderson, Warren. 1982. "Archbishop Radbod, Regino of Prüm and Late Carolingian Art and Music in Trier". Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 24:41–61.
Weakland, Rembert. 1956. "Hucbald as Musician and Theorist". The Musical Quarterly 42, no. 1 (January): 66–84.

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Preceded by Prehistoric music

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