GUIDO D'AREZZO (G-95)

Italian musician, music theorist and pedagogue - one of the significant figures of medieval musical science. It is he who we have to thank for the new, easier system of notation. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice. Perhaps the most significant European writer on music between Boethius and Johannes Tinctoris, after the former's De institutione musica, Guido's Micrologus was the most widely distributed medieval treatise on music.