Composer Study - Guido d'Arezzo

Guido d’Arezzo

"Without a valid writing system, music could exist only in the present tense." Angelo Mafucci

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Multi-Subject Connections

  • Science Activity, read aloud

  • Art Activity, read aloud

  • Literature Activity, read aloud, copywork

  • History Activity, read alouds, decoding worksheets

Guido d’Arezzo related food: Occhi di Santa Lucia

Make and eat this Italian Dessert. Click on the picture below to go to the recipe.

 

Guido d’Arezzo Music

SONG 1: Ut queant laxis

A simple version of the song from which the solfege syllables come

Song 2: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris - Guido d'Arezzo

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris - Guido d'Arezzo: performed by chorus members combined from the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas under the direction of Paul Mauffray.
Latin hymn in honor of John the Baptist purportedly composed by Guido d'Arezzo (991-1033). The chant is useful for teaching singing because of the way it uses successive notes of the scale: the first six musical phrases of each stanza begin on a successively higher note of the hexachord, giving ut–re–mi–fa–so–la; though ut is replaced by do in modern solfège.

Song 3: Guido d'Arezzo - Ut queant laxis (2013)

Two instruments and a chorus present Guido's song Ut queant laxis.

Song 4: Do-Re-Mi - The Sound of Music

Enjoy the popular song from the Sound of Music which introduced the world to Guido's solfege

Biography: The Origins of Music - The story of Guido - Music History Crash Course

A 4 minute video on the history of Guido and his musical system.

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