Scolica enchiriadis
The ninth century dialogue commentary on Musica enchiriadis, foundational to Western music theory. Formerly attributed to Hucbald; author unknown.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- Date not recorded
- Form
- Treatises
- Authorship
- Still unknown
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- Public domain
- Reference
- Wikipedia · Wikidata
The authorship story
Scolica enchiriadis is the dialogue companion to Musica enchiriadis, a master and student working through the theory of intervals, modes, and the singing of parallel organum. Together the pair carried the first systematic teaching of polyphony through the monastic schools of the Carolingian world. The old attribution to Hucbald of Saint-Amand has been rejected by modern scholarship, and no author has been established in its place. Whoever wrote it taught half a continent to harmonize and left no name in the record.
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