Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: Music notation From the Music History forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   Music notation Wiggie Registered User Registered: 3/22/2006 posted: 3/22/2006 at 4:38:52 AM ET When did music notation come into being? imnidiot Registered User From: Ashley PA Registered: 3/28/2005 posted: 3/23/2006 at 6:42:48 PM ET Google the history of music, and you'll find the whole story of how written music began. I am a fragment of my imagination trumpetrousers Registered User Registered: 5/30/2006 posted: 5/30/2006 at 2:11:03 PM ET The origin of modern, western notation is the Catholic Monasteries of the Medieval period. They developed some of the first symbols of notation for use with plainchant, more commonly known as Gregorian Chant. These symbols were known as "Numes" and gave a general definition of pitch, and later of rhythm. Later versions added the five lines of the staff, and accidentals. Solfege (Do, Re, Mi...etc) also hails from this period, they are something of an acronym for a well known Latin phrase that had specific pitch intervals associated with it, namely those of the major scale. Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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