Guido d'Arezzo
the monks
gregorian chant
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Guido d'Arezzo
byzantine chant notation
Suzuki music literature lists the composer as 'Anonymous'.
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Gregoran Chant is not a composer. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. Get a chant composer and we will evaluate the work.
First ComposerThe guy who first put two notes together would be the first composer. Since then it has gotten much more complex as new instruments are created and combined to play together. If you rely on religious texts for the answer, then Jubal would be the first composer that we know about. (Genesis 4:21)If you do not rely on religious texts, then Hildegard of Bingen is the earliest verified composer of music in Europe.St. Yared, a composer and a choreographer who lived in Aksum(ETHIOPIA) in the 6th century AD. He is credited for inventing the zema of the Church; the chant that has been in use continuously for the last almost 1500 years.
The Gregorian chant developed in western and central Europe around the 9th and 10th centuries. Some credit Pope Gregory the Great with developing the chant but scholars believe it is more a combination of Gallican and Roman chant with Carolingian synthesis.
Melodic shapes
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Church music and notation began before the Church, it has its roots in the chant of the Jewish temple. Though there was a heavy Byzantine influence on the Western Church chant, some how their system of notation was lost before the 7th century and the monks had to reinvent a series of notation to accompany the chants that they had developed for the liturgy. I have no idea what traveling musicians may have had to do with any of this, I think they were a much later development in the Middle Ages.
Pope St. Gregory the Great is created for inventing the Gregorian chant. This unaccompanied sacred song has been used by the Roman Catholic Church since the 9th and 10th centuries.
It could have been written by an Ukrainian or Russian composer and it is based on a strong tympani rhytms. At the end of composition, the entire orchestra (or ensemble) yells the war chant huzzah/hurrah.