The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the

Middle ages or Renaissance Period By French men of noble birth called troubadours and trouvères.The troubadours and trouvères were medieval musical composers. Their heritage is immense, existing today in a huge number generally medieval original copies that contain a great many ballads and several tunes to a great extent credited to singular troubadours and trouvères.

Herodotus taught that absolute right and wrong did exist.