Medieval Methods: Guido D’Arezzo’s Innovative Approaches to Music Education
Lydia Kee
Music education has been influenced by many people throughout history, but arguably none of them have done so as much the monk, Guido D’Arezzo. His teaching methods embraced and developed music educators centuries. For example, it is recorded that was first to use five-line staff we today. This especially groundbreaking in a world rote memorization. Today used globally education. The roots solfege are also found Guido’s writings; his syllables adapted Zoltan Kodály. Not only that, John Curwen’s hand signs derivative so-called Guidonian Hand. writings provide ideas on including composition music. These Feierabend, proponent improvisation classroom. Therefore, our modern practices can be traced back ingenuity.
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