Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr · Aired Oct 28, 2026
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Musical notation was created by Pope Gregory after he commanded that music be written down.
The finding
What the evidence shows
Carr tells a story in which Pope Gregory orders chants written down and notation develops over the next few centuries. Church efforts to standardize chant did matter, but notation itself predates Gregory: surviving Greek notated music is centuries older. Medieval European notation developed gradually; Carr does not say the Pope personally completed the system immediately. The initial correction must preserve that qualification.
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Quick answer
Is it true that Musical notation was created by Pope Gregory after he commanded that music be written down?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Carr tells a story in which Pope Gregory orders chants written down and notation develops over the next few centuries. Church efforts to standardize chant did matter, but notation itself predates Gregory: surviving Greek notated music is centuries older. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr, aired Oct 28, 2026, at 55:13. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is collections.reading.ac.uk, linked below.
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