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ANCIENT TIMES
Italian musical notation was invented by the Benedictine Monaco Guido d Arezzo singing teacher at the cathedral of Arezzo on year 1000 a.c.. The name of the notes was inspired by the first syllable of the verses of a hymn to St. John the Baptist
Ut qeant laxis / Resonare fibris / Mira gestorum / Famula quorum / Solve flesh to labii reatum / Sancte Iohannes
Only the first note Ut was changed in 1600 by Giovanni Doni (musicologist)by having inspiration of initial of his surname.
The town of Arezzo is the birthplace of a. .... Guittone d'Arezzo (1235) who wrote a song in the vernacular and considered the cornerstone of the birth of the modern Italian language,
Francesco Petrarca, his childhood home in Arezzo inVia dell'Orto No 8 was quoted by Boccaccio in the Decameron, a Renaissance writer Pietro Aretino's sonnets rather luxurious.
TODAY
Arezzo city oscar ..... Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, who was born a few miles from Arezzo, was shot right in the historical center in an excellent immortalizing the beauty of the city.
ANCIENT TIMES
Italian musical notation was invented by the Benedictine Monaco Guido d Arezzo singing teacher at the cathedral of Arezzo on year 1000 a.c.. The name of the notes was inspired by the first syllable of the verses of a hymn to St. John the Baptist
Ut qeant laxis / Resonare fibris / Mira gestorum / Famula quorum / Solve flesh to labii reatum / Sancte Iohannes
Only the first note Ut was changed in 1600 by Giovanni Doni (musicologist)by having inspiration of initial of his surname.
The town of Arezzo is the birthplace of a. .... Guittone d'Arezzo (1235) who wrote a song in the vernacular and considered the cornerstone of the birth of the modern Italian language,
Francesco Petrarca, his childhood home in Arezzo inVia dell'Orto No 8 was quoted by Boccaccio in the Decameron, a Renaissance writer Pietro Aretino's sonnets rather luxurious.
TODAY
Arezzo city oscar ..... Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, who was born a few miles from Arezzo, was shot right in the historical center in an excellent immortalizing the beauty of the city.