The oldest known two-part music was written around the year 900
A short piece praising Saint Boniface, found in 2014 by Giovanni Varelli in a Cambridge manuscript.
Polyphonic music has two or more melodic lines running at the same time, and the earliest known written example is a short piece in praise of Saint Boniface, composed around the year 900. Giovanni Varelli found it in 2014, when he was a PhD student at St John's College, Cambri…
