Timeline of European Art and Music - The Tenth Century

Music

0:00 - Early 900s - Unknown artist and title - Probably of German origin. Earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, recently discovered in 2014 within a British Library manuscript in London. Origin of north-west Germany, somewhere around Paderborn or Düsseldorf

1:12 - 900s - Unknown (Greek) - O Aggelos Eboa, The Angel Cried

2:30 - 900s - Unknown, possibly Odo of Cluny (French) From the Musica Enchiriadis, 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.

6:17 - 900s - Unknown (Spanish) - Attende Domine (Hear Us, O Lord)
A Christian liturgical chant for the season of Lent, referred to in English as the Lent Prose. The themes of this hymn are the sinfulness of man and the mercy of God, a theological concept emphasized during Lent.

9:43 - 900s - Unknown (Greek origin) - Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy)
The prayer, "Kyrie, eleison," "Lord, have mercy" derives from a Biblical phrase. Greek ἐλέησόν με κύριε
"have mercy on me, Lord" is the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Hebrew bible) translation of the phrase חָנֵּנִי יְהוָה found often in Psalms ( 6:2, 9:13, 31:9, 86:3, 123:3). The way it is performed has changed repeatedly throughout history.

12:26 - 900s - Unknown (Spanish) - Song of the Sibyl
A liturgical drama and a Gregorian chant, the lyrics of which comprise a prophecy describing the Apocalypse, which has been performed in churches on Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) and Alghero (Sardinia, Italy), and some Catalan churches, in the Catalan language on Christmas Eve nearly uninterruptedly since medieval times.