Guido da Arezzo was a music theorist: his fame as pedagogue was legendary in the Middle
Ages ad he is remembered today for his development of a system of recise pitch notation
through lines and spaces and for propagating a method of sight-singing which relied upon
the syllabes ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. His "Micrologus" is the earliest
comprehensive treatise on musical practice: it was used throughout the Middle Ages in
monasteries, and from the 13th century also in the universities.
Its text is preserved in at least 70 manuscripts from the 11th to the 15th century.
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