Musical
Characteristics
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Continuation of many characteristics from Early
Medieval Era
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Invention of musical notation
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Composition replaced improvisation
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2-part music common
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4-line staff used
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modern methods of solmization
were employed
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Genre and Forms
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Theorists, Treatises and Collections
- Hucbald
(ca 840-930) Monk of St. Amand; De Harmonica Institutione
& Musica Enchiriadis
- Odo
of Cluny (d. 942) Abbot of Cluny; Dialogus
- Alia Musica - beginning of Medieval Church modes
- Scholia enchiriadis - early examples of polyphonic
practices
- Guido
d' Arezzo (ca 995-1050) an Italian monk, perfected staff-notation for
plainsong; re-established solmization for training singers; devised
the Guidonian Hand; Micrologus
- Hermannus
Contractus (ca 1013-1054) Roman theorist and composer
- John "Cotton" Affligem (ca 1100) Flemish (?)
theorist who worked in a monastery in Affligem; De Musica
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Composers and Major Works
- Notker
Balbulus (ca 840-912) Roman monk best known for his
sequences
- Quem quaeritis - little play with costumes and props; trope
on the dialogue at the tomb of the risen Christ; beginning of the
Liturgical Drama
- Tuotilo (d. 915) Roman monk from the Swiss Abbey of St. Gall; most
famous composer of tropes
- Wipo
of Burgundy (d. ca 1050) "Victimae paschali laudes"
- Winchester Troper
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Hymnology
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