Show First Recognized Musical Notes When GuIdo of Arezzo In the eleventh elev-enth century first employed the syllables sylla-bles of the present solfeggio he took tho Initial syllables of six lines of a hymn to St John the Baptist of which tho music ancient even In his time had tho peculiarity that the first syllable syl-lable of each line except the last was sung one note higher than the first syllable syl-lable of tho lino next preceding So long as the hexachord remained In use tho gamut was represented by the syllables ut re ml fa sol la When tho heptachord came Into use Le Mhlrc In the seventeenth century added si for tho seventh note Tho syllable te Is found In tho musical system of GallnParlsCheve representing repre-senting do sharp This system was the work of Pero Galin In the early years of the last century and seems to have been In some sort a precursor of the method known as the Tonic SolFa |