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Christianity began as a small sect persecuted. At first the Christians still attend synagogue and the temple in Jerusalem as Christ did, and maybe still carry on the same musical tradition in the Christian meeting. The only record of communal songs in the Gospels is the last meeting of the disciples prior to the Crucifixion. [1]

Then, there is a reference in Pliny wrote to Emperor Trajan (61-113) for advice on how to prosecute the Christians in Bithynia, and describe their collection practices before sunrise and repeat antiphonally 'a hymn to Christ as intercession to God'. Antiphonal psalm is singing or playing music from psalms. The strange structure of the Hebrew Psalms makes the possibility that antiphonal methods derive from the services of the ancient Israelites. According to the historian Socrates, introduction into Christian worship as Ignatius of Antioch (died 107), whose vision has seen the angels sing. [2]

The use of instruments in early Christian music seems to have been favored. At the end of the fourth or the beginning of the century [5 [St Jerome]] wrote that a Christian girl ought not even to know what the harp or flute, or how to use it. Introduction of church organ music is traditionally believed to date from the time of the papacy of Pope Vitalian the 7th century.