A few lines of music written 1,100 years ago, accidentally noticed in graduate school in the manuscript in the British Library, were an early example of polyphonic choral singing, where the voices sing different tunes that combine to make one song.
In short composition in honor of Saint Boniface was spotted by chance Giovanni Varelli, a graduate student from St. John's College, Cambridge.
He believes that the record that dates back to pre-invention riveting, hard to read for the layman.
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gnodar
I think it's important to note that this is article references the origin of polyphonic music, as it relates to the western church. Polyphonic music as a whole goes back much further than AD900, and even christianity itself.
Maateo
This is a major discovery. I don't agree with the PhD student, though. He says: "we are looking at the birth of polyphonic music"... the point is, discoveries like this one are just saying, polyphony has probably always existed, since the origins of music.
Filani
The guy hasn't done much research in polyphonic music.
I know that Albania has a much older history of polyphonic music.
