Medieval music, which represents nearly 1,000 years of European musical development, is the ancestor of all later Western music. In the history of music the medieval period extends from about A.D. 500 to about 1450. Since much of the music has been lost, our knowledge of medieval music is incomplete. Though writings of the period tell of many other kinds of music making, church music is almost all that remains of music composed before the year 1000.
The early Christian Church adopted much of the music of the Jewish synagogue. The type of chant in Rome came to be known as Gregorian chant. This was because the first standard collection of chants was thought to have been ordered by Pope Gregory I (reigned 590-604). Greg
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