The Saracens in | 700 | BEDA VENERABILIS, born 673, died Spain (713). | | 735; an English Monk, to whom are Glass-painting & | | attributed two important treatises on Mosaic in Italy | | music. (750). | | Pepin, King of | | Benedict, an English Abbot, the Franks | | introduces chanting in choirs. (752-768). | | | | The Danes invade | 780 | Alcuinus, or Albinus, an English England | | Prelate, born 736, died 814; promotes (783). | | Church-music. Harun al-Raschid, | | Caliph of Bagdad. | | Flourishing | | state of the | | sciences with | | the Arabs (786). | | | 800 | Charlemagne, Emperor of Germany, | | introduces the Gregorian Church-song Division of the | | into all his dominions, and orders a Monarchy of | | collection to be made of the popular Charlemagne (843). | | secular songs. | | | | Church organs come gradually into | | use. | | Alfred the Great | 850 | Notker, a Benedictine Monk of St. defeats the | | Gallen, in Germany, composes sacred Danes in England | | songs called Sequentias Missales, (880). | | which are introduced in the churches. | | | 886 | Friar John of St. David's, the first | | Professor of Music at the University | | of Oxford, appointed by Alfred the | | Great. | | Foundation of the | 900 | HUCBALD, Monk of St. Amand, in University of | | Flanders, born about 840, died 932. Oxford by | | First attempt to accompany an air Alfred the | | with several voices in harmony. Great (900). | | Notation, consisting of the syllables | | of the words placed in different Foundation of | | positions between lines. The signs the Kingdom | | used for the words placed in different of Hungary by | | positions between lines. The signs the Magyars | | used for the purpose during the (about 900). | | three preceding centuries were University of | | called Numae. Cambridge | | restored (915).