单词 | Aretinian |
释义 | Aretinian /a-ri-tinˈi-ən/adjectiveRelating to Guido of Arezzo, Italian monk and music theorist (died 1050) ORIGIN: L Arētīnus, Arrētinus of Arrētium or Arezzo Aretinian syllables plural noun (music) The initial syllables of the half-lines of a hymn to John the Baptist, which, falling on successive notes of the diatonic scale, were used (apparently by Guido, and still in Italy and France) as names for the notes: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Ioannes. Thus C in the bass is C fa ut, being the fourth note (fa) of the first hexachord (on G) and the first note (ut) of the second hexachord (on C). See gamut |
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