Writing could not perpetuate music, for there seemed as many musical styles as there were peoples, and everything was left to the judgment of the executant.

You could not fix on parchment what mouths and instruments played, and so progress was impossible.

For this reason, though there was a Renaissance for sculpture, for painting, for architecture, at the revival of the arts after the Middle Ages, music was found in the same elementary stage in which it was at the break-up of the ancient world." Gabriel nodded his head assenting to the words of the Chapel-master.
"This was the first Christian music," continued Don Luis.

"Confided to tradition and transmitted orally, the religious songs soon became disfigured and corrupt.

In every church they sang in a different way, and religious music became a hotch-potch.