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Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; [n 1] c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music.A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice.
Introduced strict music theory of shōmyō, based on that of gagaku. This included standards for modulation, rhythm, pitch and new five-tone notation system (goin-bakase) [73] Śārṅgadeva: fl. early 13th century: Indian Sangita Ratnakara [Ocean of Music] Wrote the authoritative text for subsequent Indian music [74] Ficker Anonymous: early ...
Boethius' De arithmetica in a manuscript written for Charles the Bald. Boethius chose to pass on the great Greco-Roman culture to future generations by writing manuals on music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic. [85] Several of Boethius' writings, which were hugely influential during the Middle Ages, drew on the thinking of Porphyry and ...
The Micrologus is a treatise on Medieval music written by Guido of Arezzo, dating to approximately 1026. [1] It was dedicated to Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo.This treatise outlines singing and teaching practice for Gregorian chant, and has considerable discussion of the composition of polyphonic music.
The Latin treatise De institutione musica by the Roman philosopher Boethius (written c. 500, translated as Fundamentals of Music [2]) was a touchstone for other writings on music in medieval Europe. Boethius represented Classical authority on music during the Middle Ages, as the Greek writings on which he based his work were not read or ...
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg [a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of coherence.
Davis showed the boys more than just the fundamentals of music. Through his instruction he helped to socialize them, using his methods and lessons to help troubled young boys become men. His verbal manner and formidable physical demeanor provided discipline in the Home. [3] In 1909 W.E.B. DuBois edited a report on the Waifs' Home. Referring to ...
George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on jazz rather than European music, in his book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953).