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Period: 800 BCE to 146 BCE
Greek music
The foundations of western music come from the ancient Greek civilisation. Music was closely linked to many things like poetry or theatrical performances -
Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages, music was strongly linked with religion and was performed by the clergy. Musical notation arose in the Middle ages with the "neumes", to help monks remember the melody. Neumes consisted of straight and curved lines that outlined the melodic design of the composition.
Through the Middle Ages, neumes evolved into clearer, square-shaped signs that indicated the pitch of sounds. -
1025
Guizo d'Arezzo
He established a name for each note of the scale, based on the first syllable of each verse of the hymn dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
He originated the current musical writing establishing the position of each note in four horizontal parallel lines, that make the tetragram.