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Tuotilo
monk of Saint Gall
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invention of trope
- In Western music: Monophonic liturgical chant
Tuotilo (died 915), a monk of Sankt Gallen (in what is now Switzerland), is credited with the invention of tropes. Notker Balbulus (died 912) is notable for his association with the sequence, a long hymn that originated as a trope added to the final syllable…
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