The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
Published: January 1, 1988
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780751502992
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.