Taking Note: Musical Notation

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5-6-2008 3:58 AM

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Early Music Notation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical_notation&oldid=210102354">The founder of what is now considered the standard music stave was <A title="Guido d'Arezzo" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_d%27Arezzo">Guido d'Arezzo</A>, an Italian Benedictine monk who lived from 995–1050 A.D.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; 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alanocu says:

A lot of the details of our current musical notation evolved over the centuries, but the fundamentals can be traced back to one person: Guido d'Arezzo, an Italian Benedictine monk who lived from 995–1050 A.D

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5-6-2008 1:35 PM

masbury

What is most strange, to me, is that we have no idea what most of history's music sounded like - what scale it used, whether harmony or polyphony was what made it make sense - and what, to the ears of listeners, sounded beautiful. What a mystery!

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