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Church music and notation began before the Church, it has its roots in the chant of the Jewish temple. Though there was a heavy Byzantine influence on the Western Church chant, some how their system of notation was lost before the 7th century and the monks had to reinvent a series of notation to accompany the chants that they had developed for the liturgy. I have no idea what traveling musicians may have had to do with any of this, I think they were a much later development in the Middle Ages.

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