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Guido d'Arezzo
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Guido d'Arezzo (c. 990-c. 1050)

Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist. He greatly advanced solmization and mutation by adapting the syllables Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, and La to the hexachord and by demonstrating the hexachordal positions on the fingers by the use of the ‘Guidonian hand’.

He lived in Pomposa and Arezzo, and visited Rome. He was once, rather doubtfully, credited with the invention of the music stave, the use of which he certainly encouraged. His chief theoretical work, written about 1026, is entitled Micrologus de musica.



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Among their more illustrious members: Guido of Arezzo, who devised the musical notation (do/re/mi) we still use today; Gratian, whose Decretum became the basis for canon law; the fifteenth-century Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Monaco; the enormously gifted humanist monk Ambrogio Traversari; and Nichlas Malerbi who, in the fifteenth century, published the first full Italian translation of the Bible.
What We Can Learn from the East by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
Among their more illustrious members: Guido of Arezzo, who devised the musical notation (do/re/mi) we still use today; Gratian, whose Decretum became the basis for canon law; the fifteenth-century Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Monaco; the enormously gifted humanist monk Ambrogio Traversari; and Nichlas Malerbi who, in the fifteenth century, published the first full Italian translation of the Bible.
The Music of Silence by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
Among their more illustrious members: Guido of Arezzo, who devised the musical notation (do/re/mi) we still use today; Gratian, whose Decretum became the basis for canon law; the fifteenth-century Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Monaco; the enormously gifted humanist monk Ambrogio Traversari; and Nichlas Malerbi who, in the fifteenth century, published the first full Italian translation of the Bible.
Camaldoli: A Journey into Its History and Spirituality by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
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