![]() He assigned the notes of the scale-C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C-a syllable: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. Fast forward a few thousand years, when Isidore, the Archbishop of Seville during the sixth century, lamented that "Unless sounds are remembered, they perish, for they cannot be written down." A Benedictine monk who was also a master of music named Guido d'Arezzo set to work to prevent so many sacred tunes from being lost.īrother Guido was familiar with solmization, and noted that most of the Gregorian chants popular at that time could easily be learned by singers if they could see the tone progression up and down the scale, and associate it with the sound. ![]() ![]() Solmization, or the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the scale, originated in ancient ![]()
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