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
(1985)
The Book of Musical Anecdotes
New Ed edition
by Norman Lebrecht
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The Book of Musical Anecdotes
March 30, 1989, Time Warner Paperbacks
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The Book of Musical Anecdotes
January 1, 1988, Time Warner Books UK
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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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