Notker of St. Gall (familiarly known as Notker Balbulus, or Notker the Stammerer; c.840 - c.912) was a musician, poet and Benedictinemonk at the Abbey of St. Gall at St. Gallen in Switzerland during the ninth century. He is known for his invention of the sequence, a mnemonic poem for recording the series of pitches sung during an extended syllable in plainchant. Events After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothair succeding as Emperor. ... Events Orso II Participazio becomes Doge of Venice Patriarch Nicholas I Mysticus becomes patriarch of Constantinople Births November 23 - Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor (+ 973) Abd-ar-rahman III - prince of the Umayyad dynasty Deaths Oleg of Kiev Categories: 912 ... ... A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ... The Abbey of St. ... Location within Switzerland The view on the city from the nearby hills. ... This earthenware dish was made in 9th century Iraq. ... In Latin poetry, a sequence (Latin sequentia) is a poem written in a non-classical metre, often on a sacred Christian subject. ... Broadly speaking, plainsong is the name given to the body of traditional songs used in the liturgies of the Catholic Church. ...
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Gesta Caroli Magni (Life of Charlemagne; attributed)
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Notker learned how to fit the separate syllables of a Latin text to the tones of this jubilation; this poem was called the sequence (q.v.), formerly called the "jubilation".
It is characteristic of Notker that at his dying request the poor were fed, and that he asked to be buried in the clothes which he was wearing in order that none might see the heavy chain with which he had been in the habit of mortifying his body.
Among Notker's pupils, who extended the influence of the Liège schools to ever wider circles, may be mentioned Hubald, Gunther of Salzburg, Ruthard and Erlwin of Cambrai, Heimo of Verdun, Hesselo of Toul, and Adalbald of Utrecht.
Notker of St. Gall (familiarly known as Notker Balbulus, or Notker the Stammerer (Notker der Stotterer)); ca.
He studied with Tuotilo, originator of tropes, at St. Gall's, from Iso and the Irishman Iso, and Moengall, teachers in the monastic school.
Ekkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of St. Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time".
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