GUIDO D'AREZZO AND HIS NOTATION
Keywords:
Guido d’Arezzo, musical notation, medieval music, ut queant laxis, hexachord system, do re mi fa sol la, music theory, Guido’s hand, mutation (transition in music), micrologus, Benedictine monk, Western music system, music education, history of note names, music pedagogyAbstract
This article discusses the work of Guido d’Arezzo, a great figure in medieval musicology, and the system of musical notation he created. The article provides detailed information about his process of creating note names, the hexachord system, and the “Guido’s hand” method that simplified the recording of music. These approaches served as the basis of music theory not only in his time, but also in subsequent centuries.
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