Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2010-05-02 17:13
Well, to partially answer my own question, Guido's syllables were taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six musical phrases of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis. (Presumably the first syllable was then ut which is still used by French musicians in preference to do).
A quick Google search reminds me (it seems as though I studied all of this in another lifetime - it's been so many years since) that his treatise Micrologus (early 11th century) introduced, among other things, staff notation and the syllables to identify each scale degree. So the syllables, I would assume, predate any other methods - letters or numbers - of naming the notes of the diatonic scale.
My basic question still stands - is there some reason other than tradition and, perhaps, internationalization, why major music schools still seem to insist on using these syllables to identify specific notes ("fixed" do) which have no intrinsic meaning (their connection to Ut queant is, I'm certain, lost on most modern music students)?
Karl
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