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Guido d'Arezzo
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Gui·do d'A·rez·zo  (gwd dä-rts) or Guido A·re·ti·no (är-tn) 990?-1050.
Benedictine monk and music theorist who devised the four-line staff, thereby allowing precise musical notation.
Guido d'Arezzo (Italian) [ˈgwiːdo daˈrettso]
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(Biographies / Guido d'Arezzo (?995-?1050) M, Italian, RELIGION: monk, MUSIC: musical theorist) ?995-?1050 ad, Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist: reputed inventor of solmization
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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.
Camaldoli: A Journey into Its History and Spirituality 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.
Mysticism: Buddhism and Christian by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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