by http://www.mymusictheory.com The earliest music that was written down in Europe was church music. The first hymns were based on pagan folk tunes, which were set to biblical texts. Christianity was beginning to spread across Europe from Rome, and each local region had its own particular songs and hymns. These songs are known as plainsong or chants. They have one solo vocal line, which would have been sung by a male voice. The songs were unaccompanies, with no sense of "harmony" as we know it today. They also were not based on rhythm - instead the melodies meandered smoothly up and down. Because they were based on already familiar songs, the earliest chants were not written down. Knowledge of the songs was passed down from generation to generation, as children's nursery rhymes still are today. This is known as an "oral tradition". Pope Gregory I, head of the Catholic Church, decided that the chants needed to be organized and standardized, so that churches everywhere were literally singing from the same hymn book. Pope Gregory's new index of official chants is now known as "Gregorian chant". In order to teach church choirs across the continent what the tunes for the official chants were, music needed to be written down. The earliest notated music we have then, is a result of the Pope's efforts to standardize chants. This video uses images and audio which are used under the Creative Commons licence. Attributions: "Procedamus in Pace"; www. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gregorian_chant_-_Procedamus_in_pace_-_Cum_angelis_-_Psalm_24_(23)_(German-Polish_accent).ogg?uselang=en-gb
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