Question

What happened, sometime between 700 and 900, that led to the development of polyphony in western music?

Answer 1

The thing that happened sometime between 700 and 900, that led to the development of polyphony in western music was Gregorian chant began to have a second melodic line added by monks in monastery choirs.

What was Gregorian chant?

• The Roman Catholic Church's monophonic, unaccompanied holy song in Latin (and rarely Greek) has its roots in Gregorian chant, which is the main Western plainchant tradition.
• With later additions and redactions, Gregorian chant evolved mostly in western and central Europe during the ninth and tenth centuries.
• Although the Gregorian chant is said to have been created by Pope Gregory I, academics think that it was a later Carolingian blend of Roman and Gallican chant.
• Gregorian chants were initially divided into four modes, then eight, then twelve, and finally.
• A characteristic ambitus, characteristic intervallic patterns in relation to the final of a referential mode, incipits and cadences, and the usage of reciting tones at a specific distance from the final are all examples of typical melodic elements.

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