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Home › Forums › The Middle Ages › Pop quiz – St. John the Baptist hymn
Quiz – without looking (of course).A hymn to St. John the Baptist included the following line: "Ut queant laxis / resonare fibris / mira gestorum / famuli tuorum / solve polluti / labii reatum, / Sancte Ioannes" ("In order that the devout may be able to sing your wonderful deeds with all their strength, remove the guilt that pollutes their lips, O St. John.") (trans. Lanzi or O'Connell). Guido of Arezzo (d. c. 1050) used the hymn as the basis for something very important in the world of music, which influences every student of music even today. What is it?
I am going to guess Silent Night.
I cheated and have to say, wow. I would never have guessed this.
Not Silent Night. Hint: something most entry level musicians learn the first day of music school.
Greensleeves then? I am SWAGing it.
The answer is that the first two letters forms the notes on a musical scale: do re mi fa so….etc. Ut was changed to Do in the 17th/18th century.
UT… so fine 8)
something most entry level musicians learn the first day of music school.?
I meant the musical scale….not the underlying story.
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