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Guido of Arezzo, Guido Aretinus, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco or Guido D'Arezzo (/ – ) was a music theorist of the Medieval music era.

He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation (staff notation) that replaced neumatic notation. His text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages (after the writings of Boethius).

Guido d'Arezzo used his notational invention and music theoretical treatise as the foundation for creating a system that made the use of music as a devotional tool easier and facilitated the display of one's harmony with the spiritual and humanistic worlds.

Biography

Guido was a monk of the Benedictine order from the Italian city-state of Arezzo. Recent research has dated his Micrologus to or Since Guido stated in a letter that he was 34 when he wrote it, his birth date is presumed to be around or His early career was spent at the monastery of Pompos