| | Institution of | | Free-Masons | | in England | | (924). | | | | The Russians, | 950 | St. Dunstan, Archbishop of under Wladimir | | Canterbury, introduces organs into the Great, | | English churches. embrace Christianity | | (988). | | Poland becomes | 1030 | GUIDO OF AREZZO, a Benedictine a Kingdom | | Monk at Pomposa, born about 990 in (1000). | | Arezzo, died 1050. Improves the method | | of singing in use at his time, and the William of Normandy | | notation of Hucbald; designates the invades | | tones by the letters of the alphabet. England (1066). | | He is supposed to be the inventor of | | the Solmisation of the Hexachord, or The Moors in | | scale of six sounds, etc. Spain (1091). | | Peter the Hermit. | | The first | | Crusade (1095). | 1100 | NOTATION.--During the | | twelfth century originated our musical War between | | notation, the inventor of which is England and | | unknown. The first attempts in France (1113). | | Counterpoint led to the employment | | of notes of different value Frederick I., | | (Mensural and Figural Notes). called Barbarossa, | | However, these innovations did not in Germany | | come into general practical use until (1152). | | about the year 1200. The Sultan Saladin | | conquers | | Egypt (1187). | | Magna Charta, | 1200 | The most popular instruments of or the Charter | | the Middle Ages were the Psalterium, of English | | Harp, Rotta, Viol, Lute, Organistrum, Liberty (1215). | | Regals, Recorder, Sackbut, Shalm, etc. | | Distinguished | 1207 | Contest of the Minnesaenger at the Troubadours and | | Wartburg, in Saxony. Minnesaenger during | | the twelfth and | | The Minnesaenger, who flourished in thirteenth | | Germany, especially during the twelfth centuries:-- | | and thirteenth centuries, were | | identical with the Troubadours, or Guillaume IX., Count | | singers of secular, amorous, and of Poitou; Blondel, | | martial ditties, which they