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Statue of Guido in Arezzo.

Guido of Arezzo, Guido Aretinus, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco or Guido D'Arezzo (991/992 – 1033) was a music theorist of the Medieval music 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 d'Arezzo used his notational invention and music theoretical treatise as the foundation for creating a system that made the use of music as a devotional tool easier and facilitated the display of one's harmony with the spiritual and humanistic worlds.

Biography

Guido was a monk of the Benedictine order from the Italian city-state of Arezzo. Recent research has dated his Micrologus to 1025 or 1026. Since Guido stated in a letter that he was 34 when he wrote it, his birth date is presumed to be around 991 or 992. His early career was spent at the monastery of Pomposa, on the Adriatic coast near Ferrara. While there, he noted the diffi

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Guido of Arezzo

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(Guido Aretinus).

A monk of the Order of St. Benedict, b. (according to Dom Morin in the "Revue de l'art Chretien", 1888, iii) near Paris c. 995; d. at Avellano, near Arezzo, 1050. He invented the system of staff-notation still in use, and rendered various other services to the progress of musical art and science. He was educated by and became a member of the Benedictine Order in the monastery of St. Maur des Fosses, near Paris. Early in his career Guido observed the confusion which prevailed in the teaching and performance of liturgical melodies generally, and especially in his immediate surroundings. His endeavours to improve these conditions by innovations in the current methods of teaching are fully described in his writings; these made him unpopular with his brethren in the order and led to his removals to the monastery of Pomposa near Ferra

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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 resentment from his colleagues. He thus moved to Arezzo in 1025 and under the patronage of Bishop Tedald