Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous musical treatise of the 9th century. It is the first surviving attempt to set up a system of rules for polyphony in western art music. The treatise was once attributed to Hucbald , but this is no longer accepted. Some historians once attributed it to Odo of Cluny (879-942). It has also been attributed to Abbot Hoger (d. 906).
4-499: Enchiriadis may refer to: Musica enchiriadis (Music Manual), a 9th-century music theory treatise Scolica enchiriadis (Commentary on the Manual), an extension of the above treatise a Spanish record label founded by Raúl Mallavibarrena director of Musica Ficta (Spain) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-544: The title Enchiriadis . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enchiriadis&oldid=530251884 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Musica enchiriadis This music theory treatise, along with its companion text, Scolica enchiriadis ,
12-444: The treatise. ( Scolica enchiriadis also observes that some melodies should be sung "more quickly" ( celerius ), others "more slowly" ( morosius ).) The nineteenth chapter of Musica enchiriadis relates the legend of Orpheus . The scale used in the work, which is based on a system of tetrachords , appears to have been created solely for use in the work itself, rather than taken from actual musical practice. The treatise also uses
16-522: Was widely circulated in medieval manuscripts , often in association with Boethius ' De institutione musica . It consists of nineteen chapters; the first nine are devoted to notation , modes , and monophonic plainchant . Chapters 10-18 deal with polyphonic music . The author here shows how consonant intervals should be used to compose or improvise the type of early-medieval polyphonic music called organum , an early style of note-against-note polyphony; several examples of which are included in
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