During the Medieval period learning how to sing chants, although still not entirely correct, was such a time consuming and arduous process until the medieval music scholar and teacher Guido introduced new methods. Guido’s teaching of solmization and Guidonian hand had a major impact on the way music was practiced and learned, to the point where it contributed significantly to the notation system and methods we use today. Therefore, I will discuss, in detail, the approaches that Guido came up with to resolve the issues of that time period.
Guido, a medieval music scholar and teacher, was given the task to instruct a large body of Gregorian chants to the young students that were learning to be monks at the cathedral. At his time period the only …show more content…
This method, of course, would have been better if only it had been taught in one city instead of the whole Roman empire because of the misinterpretations other singers would make up. By the same token, this method was also entirely arduous and would even take up to ten years to maybe learn a couple of chants. Also, as the article mentioned, many students and masters would alter pitches from certain antiphons making them different from the original antiphons. For these reasons, Guido began getting frustrated in his attempts to teach chants to the boys at the cathedral, of course the fault was not utterly on the students themselves but in the process that music was taught. The motives behind Guido’s new notational system was clearly the tremendous amount of time chants would take to learn and to keep a written reference so that the music would stay consistent over time. This new notational system, which is the direct ancestor of all subsequent musical notation, was composed of a symmetric series of six notes, and sung to the Latin syllables that begin the six lines, ut – re – mi- fa – sol- la. This new notational system became the basis of today’s modern solfeggio. Guido did not just create this new system for the sole purpose
Guido, a medieval music scholar and teacher, was given the task to instruct a large body of Gregorian chants to the young students that were learning to be monks at the cathedral. At his time period the only …show more content…
This method, of course, would have been better if only it had been taught in one city instead of the whole Roman empire because of the misinterpretations other singers would make up. By the same token, this method was also entirely arduous and would even take up to ten years to maybe learn a couple of chants. Also, as the article mentioned, many students and masters would alter pitches from certain antiphons making them different from the original antiphons. For these reasons, Guido began getting frustrated in his attempts to teach chants to the boys at the cathedral, of course the fault was not utterly on the students themselves but in the process that music was taught. The motives behind Guido’s new notational system was clearly the tremendous amount of time chants would take to learn and to keep a written reference so that the music would stay consistent over time. This new notational system, which is the direct ancestor of all subsequent musical notation, was composed of a symmetric series of six notes, and sung to the Latin syllables that begin the six lines, ut – re – mi- fa – sol- la. This new notational system became the basis of today’s modern solfeggio. Guido did not just create this new system for the sole purpose