The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Published: March 30, 1989
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780722155387
Subjects: Music
First sentence: Guido, a Benedictine monk, motivated by a desire to improve church singing, devised a system of identifying notes by syllables (e.g. 'ut', 're', 'mi'), along with a six-note scale that was easily sight-read and was used to teach singing until 1600.