Western Music History Excerpts

Epitaph of Seikilos
Composer: Uknown
Date: First century CE
Origin: southwestern Turkey
Genre: Ancient Greek Song (epigram)
Mass for Christmas Day
- Proper Chants
  - Introit (4th-7th century)
  - Gradual
  - Alleluia
  - Offertory
  - Communion
- Ordinary Chants
  - Kyrie (10th century) (Lord)
    - Origin: Byzantine Church
  - Gloria (10th century)
  - Credo (325 CE) (I Believe)
    - Church Council of Nicaea
  - Sanctus (11th century)
  - Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)
  - Ite, missa est
Composer: Unknown
Date: 13th century
Origin: Psalms (The Bible)
Genre: Plainchant
Chants from Vespers for Christmas Day
Genre: Gregorian chant office
- Tecum principium - first Psalm with Antiphon
- Christe Redemptor omnium - hymn
Tropes on Introit Puer natus
Date: 950 - 1050
Genre: intro trope/liturgical drama
- Quem queritis in presepe
Sequences
Date: 1000 - 1250
- Victimae paschali laudes
- Dies irae
Ordo virtutum: In principio omnes
Genre: sacred music drama
Date: 1151
Composer: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Can vei la lauzeta mover
Genre: troubadour song
Date: 1170-80
Composer: Bernart de Ventadorn (? 1130-1200)
A chantar
Genre: troubadour song
Date: 1150
Composer: Comtessa de Dia
Palästinalied
Genre: Minnelied (German love song)
Date: 1228
Composer: Walther von der Vogelweide
Cantigas of Santa Maria, No. 159
Genre: Cantiga (Spanish Medieval song)
Date: 1270-90
Composer: King Alfonso el Sabio?
Rex caeli, Domine maris from Musica enchiriadis
Genre: Parallel organum and mixed parallel and oblique organum
Date: 850-90
Viderunt omnes
Composer: Leoninus
Genre: Organum duplum
Date: 1150
Composer: Perotinus
Genre: Organum quadruplum
Date: 1198
Alleluia Justus ut palma, from Ad organum faciendum
Genre: note-against-note organum
Date: 1100