Timeline of European Art and Music - The Seventh Century

Timestamps

0:00 - 600s - Unknown (probably Italian) - Mass for the Easter Day

1:30 - 600s - St. Romanos the Melodist (Syrio-Greek) - Hymn of the Nativity of Christ (Kontakion) - A kontakion is a poetic sermon with numerous stanzas that was in common use in the Byzantine rite between the 6th and 8th centuries.

4:32 - 600s - Unknown (Irish) - Sancti Venite (Come all ye holy) - Composed at Bangor Abbey (Ireland) in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known Eucharistic hymn.

7:12 - 600-700s - Unknown (probably Italian) - Psalm 21 Old Roman Song - The last verse reads - "Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power."

9:06 - 658-680 - Cædmon (English) - Cædmon's Hymn - Possibly the oldest surviving English poem. Performed on the Anglo-Saxon lyre, and sung in Old English.

11:33 - 600s - Unknown (probably Italian) - The Adoration of the Cross