Staff musical notation
Notación musical con pentagrama y solmisación
- Date
- c. 1025 · confidence high
- Place
- Arezzo / Pomposa, Italy
- Credited to
- Guido of Arezzo
- People
- 👤 Guido de Arezzo992–1050
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Horizontal lines with clefs that fix the exact pitch of notes, together with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la for teaching. It made it possible to write and read music without having heard it.
What it led to
- complex polyphony impossible to transmit orally
- a reduction in the training time for singers from ten years to two
- the written tradition of Western music and the figure of the composer
Built on
- Hurrian Hymn no. 6: the oldest musical notationc. 1400 BCE
- Carolingian neumes
- Micrologus and Boethius's theory
Made possible
- Written polyphony (Notre-Dame school)c. 1170
- Tonic sol-fac. 1812-1841
- Twelve-tone technique1921 (concebido) / 1923 (presentado)
- Written polyphony (Notre-Dame school)
- mensural notation (Franco of Cologne)