Guido also invented symbols that matched words to musical sounds, and he called this system solmization. These innovations helped him to teach the choir how to sing and how to remember assorted musical pitches. Guido’s methods became standard as the rules of Medieval music.
A four-line staff was used for a while, and some lines were written in red. In vocal and instrumental music, there were experiments that explored adding up to 12 lines. By the 16th century, 5 lines became the official number of lines still in use today.
Although his own writings do not make reference to it, Guido d’ Arezzo is credited with inventing another notation system that was not written. Different segments on the human hand were each assigned an individual scale-note name (do-re-mi…) which helped aid in memorizing pitch patterns in scales. This unique method was later called – Guido’s Hand.
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