Guido d'Arezzo

[gwee-daw dah-ret-tsaw]

noun

1. Guido AretinusFra Guittone, c995–1049?, Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.

Guido d'Arezzo

/ ˈɡwiːdo daˈrettso /

noun

1. ?995–?1050 _ad , Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist: reputed inventor of solmization

Other Word Forms

• Guidonian adjective

Example Sentences

It is noticeable that, not long afterwards, when Guido D'Arezzo had penetrated deeper into the mysteries of the musical art, that art was misunderstood by the uncomprehending, and thought to be a subject for mathematical speculation, so that its true essence was utterly misapprehended, just as it was barely commencing to unfold itself.

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Guido d'Arezzo, the famous sight-reading music teacher of the eleventh century, advised his pupils to "exercise the hand in the use of the monochord," showing his knowledge of the keyboard.

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His attempt to reconstruct the musical scale was afterwards overshadowed by the system invented by Guido d'Arezzo, and it is therefore unnecessary to describe it in detail.

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To Guido d'Arezzo is ascribed its development up to some semblance of our present system, although the claim has often been denied.

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