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Ut queant laxis

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Solo voice singing in a church.

This is how I remembered the famous tetragram from which the names of the musical notes were taken, when I recorded it.

Ut queant laxis is the first verse of the Hymn to Saint John the Baptist.
From the first syllables of the verses of this hymn is taken the name musical notes of modern Latin notation, made by Guido de Arezzo in the eleventh century.
Guido de Arezzo used the first syllable of each stanza, except the last one: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. Centuries later, Anselmo of Flanders introduced the name if for the missing note, combining the initials of Sancte Ioannes.

Later, in the seventeenth century the Italian musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni replaced the note ut for do, because this syllable facilitated the solfeggio because it finishes in vocal:

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UT queant laxis (Ut = Do)
REsonare fibris
My manager
FAmuli tuorum
Solve polluti
LAbi reatum
Sancte Iohannes (SI)

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released July 14, 2021
Joan Anton Mateu - Voice

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Dussum Barcelona, Spain

Singer, musician keyboardist, multi-style composer and music producer from Barcelona (Spain)

Dussum = past, present and future (from Tibetan language, "three times")

Music beyond time. Music for our inner journey.

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