THE SINGING CHURCH

an outline history of the music sung by choir and people
by C. HENRY PHILLIPS B.A., D.Mus., A.C.D.C.M.
sometime Lecturer and Sub-Warden of the College of St. Nicolas, Chislehurst
First published in Mcmxlv by Faber and Faber Limited 24 Russell Square London W.C.1
Prepared for katapi by Paul Ingram 2005

HISTORY CHART. I. PRE-REFORMATION

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    CHURCH MUSIC HISTORY     SECULAR HISTORY
       

27

Augustus Emperor

       

54

Romans in Britain

 

 

60

Epistles and gospels—primitive service

   

100

   

100

 
 

150

Justin Martyr—communion formalised

   

200

 

Hippolytus—further formalisation of canon

200

 

500

 

Eastern influence—cantus antiphonarius, monasteries, hymns

300

 
 

513

Edict of Milan—Christianity the official religion of the Empire

   

400

 

Ambrose of Milan—music collected, metrical hymns popularised

400

 
   

 

 

407

       

449

English invasion

500

   

500

   
       

560

Ethelbert, king of Britain

 

597

Augustine brought music to England

 

570

(Mahomet born)

600

 

Gregory—Schola Cantorum, liturgy

600

   
   

and music codified

 

627

Edwin, king of Nortliumbna,

         

a Christian

700

   

700

 

Christianity everywhere in Britain

       

755

Venerable Bede died.
Beginnings of Feudal System

       

793

Northmen's invasion

800

 

Organs at Aachen

800

 

Charlemagne Emperor

 

832

Notker—proses and sequences

     
       

871

Alfred, king of Wessex (till 900)

900

   

900

   
       

911

Northmen to Normandy

 

950

First experiments in organum

     
       

994

Danish invasion

1000

 

Beginnings of stave notation

1000

   
 

1030

Wipo—Victimae Paschali, leading to mystery plays

 

1003

Danish invasion

   

 

 

1016

Canute

       

1042

Edward the Confessor

 

1050

Great Schism

 

1066

Norman invasion

       

1095

First Crusade

1100

   

1100

   
 

1150

Adam de S. Victor—metrical sequence

     
   

 

 

1170

Thomas a Becket

1200

 

Faux-bourdon, conductus

1200

   
 

1215

'Sumer is i-cumen in'

 

1215

Magna Carta

1300

 

Musica Ficta, development of modern notation

1500

   

1400

 

 

1400

   
       

1415

Agincourt

 

1450

Dunstable

 

1455

Wars of Roses

       

1485

Bosworth—the Tudors

1500

 

Organs with keyboards

1500

   
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