Hoger (; died 906) was the abbot of

Werden Werden ( Westphalian: ''Wadden'') is a southern borough of the city of Essen in Germany. It belongs to the city district ''IX Werden/Kettwig/Bredeney'' and has 9,998 inhabitants as of June 30, 2006. The borough occupies a space of and is situat ...

and Saint Ludger in Helmstedt from 898 until 902. From Duke

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, he acquired the field in the Herzfeld where the body of Saint Ida was buried. He has also been tentatively assigned the authorship of the ''

Musica enchiriadis ''Musica enchiriadis'' is an anonymous musical treatise of the 9th century. It is the first surviving attempt to set up a system of rules for polyphony in western art music. The treatise was once attributed to Hucbald, but this is no longer accep ...

'', the first musical treatise on

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...

in the Western tradition.

Bibliography

*Engel, Heinrich. ''Ruhrchristen. Geschichte und Geschichten von Ludgerus und den Liudgeriden, von Reichsäbten und Pfarrern in Werden an der Ruhr''. Essen: Schmitz, 1997. . *Torkewitz, Dieter. "Zur Entstehung der Musica und Scolica Enchiriadis", ''Acta Musicologica'', 69, 2 (1997): 156–81. *Torkewitz, Dieter. ''Das älteste Dokument zur Entstehung der abendländischen Mehrstimmigkeit. Eine Handschrift aus Werden an der Ruhr. Das „Düsseldorfer Fragment“ (''

Archiv für Musikwissenschaft The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking trade magazine devoted to music history and historical musicology, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars. It was founded in 1918 as the suc ...

'', Beiheft 44)''. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoger Year of birth unknown 906 deaths 9th-century Christian abbots 10th-century Christian abbots Music theorists German Christian clergy