Show TO HONOR HONO FIRST W ITE Of MUSIC Monk in 1023 Way of Keeping Melodies Musical organizations In France Fiance and central Germany are this thia year holdIng many celebrations In hon hen honor hon honor or of the Benedictine monk who rhet conceived a practicable moth meth method od oct of or writing music Th The monk was named Guide and hi method of or musical notation a nas Invented whilo he was In the tho monastery at Arezzo In 1022 nine hundred years vears ago Little I Is kno n of Guido Guide s 5 life beyond that h he was born near Pails In and died at atI In 1050 I Before Outdo Guido wrote Tot music mule there nas a no way ay for putting melodies Into circulation other than tran trans transmitting them from person to per per- person person per person son by humming or whistling ng The name of a II creator of a melody no a soon oon forgotten and when hen new tunes tune were hoard old ones were discarded I and hoard heard no more moro The method at first employed by Outdo Guido In music I nab all different rent from tint used to- to tolas to-lav to 1111 las Instead of at having use five th 0 horizon horizon- horizontal tai tal lines hines with notes In the I between bet them as s well a as on them ho ha used tour four lines with not notes note only In tho the spaces space At that time the making of ot a manuscript of music Wa was an art for tor not only anly were wore notes note placed fOI to practical purposes but they served a decorative purpose as 98 well There was a a wide variety In the colors color o And nd the tho shapes of the note notes for far forthe the arlous spaces and other In- In In Indications that were wen necessary were made to please the eye ye a as well as Inform the brainI brain I DECORATE DECORATE TOTES cOTES Compose Composers then did not mak make the ople of their compositIons composItion which wore were on public display Pro Pro- Professional Pro Professional manuscript artists under under- undertook undertook took tho the ta task tacIt lt of providing cop copies Ie which would draw attention from the c composers ere crude outlines outline It a In the monasteries that the tho fin finer manuscripts el e mad made on enduring parchment by men mn who tolled toiled untiringly working sometimes for da dale dais s on an a II single pale page of the music |