Gregorian Chant

Anonymus refers not to a single individual, but to the countless unknown composers of the Medieval period whose works survive without attribution.Anonymus represents the vast body of sacred and secular music composed between approximately the 9th and 14th centuries CE across Europe where the creator's identity was either not recorded, lost to history, or deemed unimportant compared to the religious function of the music. Their works form the foundational repertoire of Western classical music,...

On a cold morning around 860, a monk named Haimo arrived at the same conclusion musicians have rediscovered ever since — that singing can make a sad person sadder or a joyful one euphorically happier. But he lived in a monastery, and the songs that worried him were those not sung to God. Within a generation, his student Heiric had hardened that suspicion into outright demonization of secular melody. Just a few decades later, Remigius, Heiric’s own pupil, celebrated liturgical song as the necessa