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Sep 20, 2023 · Guido d’Arezzo’s work extended beyond solfege. He introduced the use of lines and spaces to represent pitches, a precursor to the modern staff notation.
This timeline documents the history of Western music from its beginnings to today. Each section contains information about musical characteristics, performance styles, and social context of the era, as well as examples of pieces from each era.
Artifacts show that sheet music began as rudimentary musical codes written on clay tablets by ancient Babylonians nearly 4,000 years ago.
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music.
For polyphonic music a five-line staff became standard by the 14th century, but keyboard music in some countries used six- or seven-line staves as late as the mid-17th century.
May 30, 2016 · When Machaut wrote that there is no instrument—whether woodwind, keyed or stringed—whose existence does not depend on Music, he was surely referencing musical sounds with which he was intimately familiar.
The first printed sheet music made with a printing press was made in 1473.
