He created the do-re-mi notation basing from a hymn to Saint John the Baptist, derived from the first syllables of each line: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si. Another primary specialist of this type of musical notation is Guido d’Arezzo, an Italian monk. It was Boethius, a 6th-century Roman philosopher, who assigned the first letters of the alphabet to the notes of a scale. Since then, musical notation has come to include melodies, rhythms, note duration, the key in which the music is played, the manner in which the music is to be played, and many more. Written in cuneiform, the artifact contained information on how to perform a piece of music.
Did you know that musical notation is almost as old as writing? The earliest known writing system was made by the Sumerians around 3000BC, while the earliest form of musical notation, also by the Sumerians, was dated around 2000BC.
