Italian music theorist and pedagogue (c. 991/2–1033)
Guido depicted in a medieval manuscript
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Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo;[n 1] c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice.[1][2] Perhaps the most significant European writer on music between Boethius and Johannes Tinctoris,[3] after the former's De institutione musica, Guido's Micrologus was the most widely distributed medieval treatise on music.[4]
Biographical information on Guido is only available from two contemporary documents; though they give limited background, a basic understanding of his life can be unravelled. By around 1013 he began teaching at Pomposa Abbey, but his antiphonary Prologus in antiphonarium and novel teaching methods based on staff notation brought considerable resentment from his colleagues. He thus moved to Arezzo in 1025 and under the patronage of Bishop Tedald of Arezzo he taught singers at the Arezzo Cathedral. Using staff notation, he was able to teach large amounts of music quickly and he wrote the multifaceted Micrologus, attracting attention from around Italy. Interested in his innovations, Pope John XIX called him to Rome. After arriving and beginning to explain his methods to the clergy, sickness sent him away in the summer. The rest of his life is largely unknown, but he settled in a monastery near Arezzo, probably one of the Avellana of the Camaldolese order.
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GuidoofArezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk...
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human beings. It was named after GuidoofArezzo, who pioneered today's conventional musical notation 1,000 years ago. GUIDO was first designed by Holger...
to Guido of Arezzo. Guido, who was active in the eleventh century, is regarded as the father of modern musical notation. He made use of clefs (C & F...
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to sight-sing. Some form of the device may have been used by GuidoofArezzo, a medieval music theorist who wrote a number of treatises, including one...
Patriarchate of Constantinople soured during John XIX's pontificate. He was a supporter of Emperor Conrad II and patron of the musician GuidoofArezzo. Romanus...
on Medieval music written by GuidoofArezzo, dating to approximately 1026. It was dedicated to Tedald, Bishop ofArezzo. This treatise outlines singing...
didactism in music is the chant Ut queant laxis, which was used by GuidoofArezzo to teach solfege syllables. Around the 19th century the term didactic...
music since GuidoofArezzo. He is known to have studied in Orléans, and to have been master of the choir there; he also may have been director of choirboys...
the final syllable rather than ti. GuidoofArezzo is thought likely to have originated the modern Western system of solmization by introducing the ut–re–mi–fa–so–la...
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("correct" or "true" music) as defined by the hexachord system of Guido of Arezzo. Today, the term is often loosely applied to all unnotated inflections (whether...
designated as a "dangerous" interval when GuidoofArezzo developed his system of hexachords and with the introduction of B flat as a diatonic note, at much...
construct the whole universe out of numbers". The Micrologus ofGuidoofArezzo repeats the legend in Chapter XX. Dimensions of four Pythagorean hammers. According...
either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s...
sixth). The hexachord as a mnemonic device was first described by GuidoofArezzo, in his Epistola de ignoto cantu. In each hexachord, all adjacent pitches...
Pythagoras (sixth century BCE). Dolge attributes the invention of the moveable bridge to GuidoofArezzo around 1000 CE. In 1618, Robert Fludd devised a mundane...
theorists include Hucbald, GuidoofArezzo, Johannes Cotto, Franco of Cologne, Philippe de Vitry. Many medieval music manuscripts of Europe were anonymous...
using the chant as source material. During the 11th century, GuidoofArezzo was one of the first to develop musical notation, which made it easier for...
became Bishop ofArezzo in 1023 and sponsored GuidoofArezzo. Tedald married Willa daughter of Hubert of Spoleto, natural son of Hugh of Italy. Gwatkin...
Arezzo Cathedral (Italian: Cattedrale di Arezzo, Duomo di Arezzo, Cattedrale di Ss. Donato e Pietro) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Arezzo...
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