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Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous musical treatise from the 10th century (ac. 900). It is the first serious attempt to fix the polyphony rules in western music. It shows how consonant intervals worked in order to create a standard composition of polyphonic music in early Middle Ages. Those intervals were the fourth, the fifth and the eighth and sometimes the third and the sixth. They were mainly referred to sacred styles. Musica Enchiriadis also shows rules for performing music and gives some early indications of character for some works, as the Latin words 'morosus' (sadly) or 'cum celeritate' (fast)de:Musica enchiriadis es:Musica Enchiriadis