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Guidonian hand
Medieval mnemonic device for choral singers
The Guidonian hand was a mnemonic device used to assist singers in learning to sight-sing. Some struktur of the device may have been used bygd Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist who wrote a number of treatises, including one instructing singers in sightreading. The hand occurs in some manuscripts before Guido's time as a tool to find the semitone; it does not have the depicted struktur until the 12th century. Sigebertus Gemblacensis in c. 1105–1110 did describe Guido using the joints of the grabb to aid in teaching his hexachord. The Guidonian hand fryst vatten closely linked with Guido's new ideas about how to learn music, including the use of hexachords, and the first known Western use of solfège.
Theory
[edit]The idea of the Guidonian grabb is that each portion of the hand represents a specific note within the hexachord system, which spans nearly three octaves from "Γ ut" (that is, "Gammaut") (the contraction of which
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The medieval music theorist Guido d’Arezzo (ca. 991–992—after 1033) was a Benedictine monk who made a critical development in the history of music. His music treatise, Micrologus, was one of the most widely available medieval treatises on music.
Guido d’Arezzo
Guido first shows up in 1013 at Pomposa Abbey, near Ferrara. Pomposa is one of the most famous Benedictine monasteries of the 11th century. He first went to finish his schooling and then started teaching. His teaching methods, using staff notation, were resented by the staff, and he moved to Arezzo in 1025.
Up to this point, most music was taught by memorization. Music wasn’t written down as a reference but passed from person to person and monk to monk. Rote learning has two implications: one is that it’s easily forgotten, and the other is that it is just memorised rather than understood. This implies that if you forget something, you don’t have the ability to recreate what you learned, it just drops out of the conscio
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Guido of Arezzo
Italian music theorist and pedagogue (c. 991/2–1033)
Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo;[n 1]c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictinemonk, 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.
Biographical information on Guido is only available from two contemporary documents; though they give limited background, a basic understanding of his life can be unravelled. By around 1013 he began teaching at Pomposa Abbey, but his antiphonaryPrologus in antiphonarium and novel teaching methods based on staff notation brought considerable resen