In the history of technology, Guido of Arezzo is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Guido of Arezzo as 11th century Italian monk, inventor of modern musical notation.
Guido of Arezzo was born at Arezzo in 992.
Learning then moved through courts, monasteries and madrasas, and reach depended on which libraries and translations lay within travelling distance.
Guido of Arezzo is described as music theorist, musicologist and inventor.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are music.
Death came in 1050, at 58. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as music theorist, musicologist and inventor
