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The Epitaph of Sicylus is the oldest surviving musical composition. It dates back to Greece and was found on a marble column placed over the tomb that Sicylus allegedly had built for his wife Euterpe, near Ephesus, in present-day Turkey. With this exercise, you'll be able to understand the score and decrypt each of the symbols. -
Gregorian chant is the proper liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church. Inherited from an ancient tradition, this musical repertoire was composed primarily from Latin verses from the Bible. -
Polyphonic music from a period that is not entirely specific but in any case prior to the 14th century, which developed particularly brilliantly in France and whose main manifestation was the polytextual motet. -
Designates the musical production, both French and Italian, after the last works of the ars antiqua until the predominance of the Burgundian school, which will occupy the first place in the musical panorama of the West in the 15th century.