European music system origins

The notes to the European music system got its name from the first letters of the Latin alphabet. A (La) B (Si) C (Do) D (Re) C (Mi) F (Fa) G (Sol) The newest name of the notes given by the monk, medieval theorist, Guido d 'Arezzo. In their efforts to help the singers to absorb and deliver faster and easier melodies, gave hints on syllables, which formed the acrostic of the first turn a hymn to John the Baptist or otherwise "Ut queant laxis ": Ut queant laxis Resonare fibris Mira gestorum Famuli tuorum, Solve polluti Labii reatum, Sancte Ioannes. Translation: So that your faith in quiet voices, they can spread the wonderful accomplishments and cleanse your sin, O Holy John Around the 15th century, the first switch was in a sense, Domine Sancte, and so became Ut Do (Do). The notes in Byzantine music and took them at first, named after the Greek alphabet: Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε, Ζ, Η. Later, however, transformed into syllables eviches (ΠΑ, ΒΟΥ, ΓΑ, ΔΙ, ΚΕ, ΖΟ, ΝΗ) under the following acrostic: Πάλαι ήμαρτεν Αδάμ, εμακρύνθη του Θεού· βουληθείς δ’ ο Πλαστουργός, δούλου δέχεται μορφήν, γάλα πίνει εκ μητρός· εις μετάνοιαν καλεί, Διδαχών σκορπίζει φως, θαύματα πολλά ποιεί· κεφαλήν δ’ εχθρού πατεί, νεκρωθείς και αναστάς, ζωοδότης ων Θεός· και καλεί εις μέλλουσαν ζωήν νηπενθή πιστούς καλεί, όπου πρώτος εισελθών πάσαν έλαβεν αρχήν παρά του Θεού Πατρός.