Guido, a Benedictine monk, motivated by a desire to improve church singing, devised a system of identifying notes by syllables (e.g. 'ut', 're', 'mi'), along with a six-note scale that was easily sight-read and was used to teach singing until 1600.
An edition of The Book of Musical Anecdotes
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The Book of Musical Anecdotes
by Norman Lebrecht
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Humor, general, Music, Composers, Anecdotes, Anecdotes, facetiae, satireShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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"Guido, a Benedictine monk, motivated by a desire to improve church singing, devised a system of identifying notes by syllables (e.g. 'ut', 're', 'mi'), along with a six-note scale that was easily sight-read and was used to teach singing until 1600."
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