Guido of Arezzo

Matt Brooks

Benefits of Having Written Music

Musical notes can be specifically defined A piece that is centuries old can be played the same way centuries later There is a visual representation on how music has changed over history When having written music, we can analyze it in ways that can use older methods of writing and apply them to newer ones

Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird 1965 and !11

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,ar$y Written S#eet Music

Music before -uido.s system was primarily transferred orally A manuscript would be used as a reminder of how things should be sung, but usually those who already knew the song would have to still teach it

-eve$o*'ent of Musica$ .otation

-uido was the first to develop a musical notation system that could define pitch A way to define rhythm was still lacking, but this was a huge leap from neumatic notation

-o/0e/Mi

-uido also was the first to define the first & solfege syllables /0o, 1e, Mi, Fa, #ol, and 2a3 This was also a leap in music towards defining the positions of notes within the music

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Advance'ents After Guido1 Addition of 0#yt#'

1hythm was later added to define the length of notes played in a song

Addition of t#e 2ift# 3ine

"n -uido.s music, there were only four lines written to define the notes "n $6th century "taly, five line staves were eventually used, and those are what are commonly used today

Additions to t#e So$fege Sy$$a&$es

"n $7 century "taly, the 89t: syllable that -uido developed was changed to the open syllable 80o: as a suggestion from "talian musicologist -iovanni Battista 0oni #i was also added from the initials of #ancte "ohannes to complete the diatonic scale "n the $%th century, #arah -lover changed 8#i: to 8Ti: so every syllable would start with a different letter

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Addition of 4ey Signatures and 5$efs

;ey signatures and clefs were later added for more musical fle5ibility for appropriate ability to read for different instruments

5$osure

-uido of Arezzo allowed music to make huge leaps After his death, music kept on growing in the ways it.s been written down and recorded Thanks to -uido, we now have a system where music that was written centuries ago can still be played the same way today