Medieval music is the music of the Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. The first and longest era of Western classical music, medieval music saw the presence of various music theorists, such as Boethius, Hucbald, Guido of Arezzo, Johannes Cotto, Franco of Cologne and Philippe de Vitry.

Medieval music theorists

Also a composer May have been a composer +Medieval music theoristsNameLifetimeNationalityMusic theory worksBoethius Roman De institutione musica Cassiodorus Roman Institutiones Isidore of Seville – 636 Spanish Etymologiarum sive Originum libri xx and De ecclesiasticis officiis Alcuin – 804 Anglo-Saxon De octo tonis and an unknown music treatise (both of uncertain authorship) Rabanus Maurus – 856 Frankish Throughout various works Johannes Scottus Eriugena – Irish De divisione naturae and De divisione naturae Aurelian of Réôme Frankish Musica disciplina Regino of Prüm – 915 German De synodalibus causis and Epistola de armonica institutione; Octo toni de musicae artis Hucbald – 930 Benedictine(De) Musica Remigius of Auxerre Latin The ninth book of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Odo of Cluny – 942 French Dialogus? Odo of Arezzo Italian Notker Labeo – 1022 Benedictine Five short essays Guido of Arezzo(Guido da Arezzo; Guido Aretinus) – after 1033 Italian Micrologus, Prologus in antiphonarium Wulfstan the Cantor English Brevilioquium super musicam ? ? Dialogus? Enchiridion musices? Otloh of Sankt Emmeram BenedictineNone surviving; cited in William of Hirsau's De musica Hermann of Reichenau 1013 – 1054 BenedictineMusica Berno of Reichenau before 1014 – 1048 Probably GermanDe quibusdam rebus ad misse officium pertinentibus and De consona tonorum diversitate William of Hirsau – 1091 Benedictine De musica Aribo Scholasticus Unknown De musica Frutolf of Michelsberg mid-11th century – 1103 Unknown Breviarium Theogerus of Metz – 1120 German Musica Hugh of St Victor – 1141 Augustinian A chapter in the Didascalicon Johannes Cotto Unknown De musica Guido of Eu Cistercian Regule de arte musica Theinred of Dover English De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum Bartholomeus Anglicus before 1200 – 1272 English Throughout De proprietatibus rerum Roger Bacon  –  English Throughout various works Petrus de Picardia French Ars motettorum compilata breviter Elias Salomo French Scientia artis musice Egidius de Zamora Spanish Ars musica Magister Lambertus Unknown Tractatus de musica Amerus English Practica artis musice Hieronymus de Moravia died after 1271 Unknown Tractatus de Musica Franco of Cologne GermanArs cantus mensurabilis Engelbert of Admont – 1331 Austrian De musica Jacobus of Liège – after 1330 Franco-Flemish Speculum musice Johannes de Garlandia French De Plana Musica and De Mensurabili Musica Johannes Balox Unknown Abbreviatio magistri Franconis a[uctore] Johanne dicto Baloce – 1359/60 German Flores musicae omnis cantus Gregoriani and Chronicon Hugonis sacerdotis de Rutelinga ad annum Petrus de Cruce FrenchTractatus de tonis Petrus Le Viser ? Johannes de Muris – 1344 French Notitia artis musicae, Compendium musicae practicae, Musica speculativa secundum Boetium, Libellus cantus mensurabilis, and Ars contrapuncti Philippe de Vitry 1291–1361 FrenchArs nova Walter Odington English Summa de speculatione musice Henricus of Zeelandia South Netherlandish Tractatus de cantu perfecto et imperfecto Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia Italian Liber de musica Willelmus Unknown Breviarium regulare musice Johannes de Grocheio French De musica Johannes Boen early 14th century – 1367 Dutch Ars [musicae] and Musica Marchetto da Padova ItalianLucidarium in arte musice plane and Pomerium in arte musice mensurate Simon Tunsted – 1369 English Quatuor Principalia Musicae Robert de Handlo English Regule cum maximis magistri Franconis cum additionibus aliorum musicorum Henricus Helene French Summula musice Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa French Compendium de discantu mensurabili Egidius de Francia French De motettis componendis John of Tewkesbury English Quatuor principalia musice John Hanboys English Summa Philippus de Caserta Italian?Incipiunt regule contrapuncti secundum magistrum phylippotum de Caserta: Sciendum est quod contrapunctum est fundamentum biscanti Johannes Ciconia – 1412 Franco-FlemishNova musica Ugolino of Forlì Italian Declaratio musicae disciplinae

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