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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE See also:

Pythagoras, c. 582—500 B.C. Determines the ratios of the diatonic See also:scale. See also:Aristoxenus, fl. 320 B.C. Our See also:chief authority on classical See also:Greek See also:music. See also:Ptolemy, ft. A.D. 130. Astronomer, geographer, mathematician and writer on music. Reforms the Greek modes so as to prepare the way for the ecclesiastical modes. St See also:Ambrose.

Arranges the Ambrosian tones of See also:

church music, A.D. 384. See also:Hucbald, c. 84o-930. Systematizer of Diaphonia or Organism (called by him See also:Symphonia), and inventor of a See also:simple and ingenious notation which did not survive him. Guido of See also:Arezzo, c. 990-1050. Theorist and systematizer of musical notation and solmization. Franco of See also:Cologne, iith See also:century author of See also:treatises on musical See also:rhythm. See also:Works under the name of Franco appear at See also:dates and places which have led to the See also:assumption of the existence of three different authors, who, however, have been partly explained away again; and the 11th century is sometimes called the Franconian peciod of discant. Discantus positio vulgaris. An See also:anonymous See also:treatise written before I15o; is said to contain the earliest rules for " measured music," i.e. for music in which different voices can sing different rhythms.

The See also:

Reading MS., c. 1240 (See also:British Museum, MS. Hari., 978, fol. 11 b.), contains the See also:rota " See also:Sumer is icumen in." See also:Walter Odington, fl. 1280. See also:English writer on music, and composer. See also:Adam de la See also:Hale, 1230–1288 Connecting-links between the trouba-See also:Machault, fl. 1350 dours and the archaic contrapuntists. See also:John See also:Dunstable, died 1453. English contrapuntal composer. G. Dufay, died 1474.

Netherland contrapuntal composer. (These two are the See also:

principal founders of See also:artistic See also:counterpoint.) Josquin See also:Des Pres, 1445–1521. The first See also:great composer.

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