Perotin - Viderunt Omnes

Gregorian Chant - the birth of Western Music

Though few realize it, we owe the development of Western Music to the Monks, Friars and composers that developed it from the basis you hear in this Video:





While Barbarism ruled the land and Arab savages robbed, raped and pillaged their way across the Middle East and Africa these Holy men labored in the service of God.  The work of these men over nearly 1,000 years preserved what we know as Civilization and created the forms that we today know as Music.