Guido of Arezzo
Also known as Guido d'Arezzo, Guido Aretinus, Guido da Arezzo
11th century Italian monk, inventor of modern musical notation
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Guido of Arezzo was an 11th century Italian monk who developed the system of musical notation that we still use today. His invention made it possible to write down and preserve music accurately, which was transformative for the history and development of Western music.
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Guido of Arezzo (991/992 – after 1033) was a music theorist of the Mediaeval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation (staff notation) that replaced neumatic notation; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages (after the writings of Boethius). Guido (also referred to as Guido Aretinus, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, and Guido d'Arezzo) was a monk of the Benedictine order from the Italian city-state of Arezzo. <a h
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Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A monk from the Order of Saint Benedict, 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. Perhaps the most significant European writer on music between Boethius and Johannes Tinctoris, after the former's De institutione musica, Guido's Micrologus was the most widely distributed medieval treatise on music.