![]() ![]() Guido developed his system to teach these monks how to sight read, hear pitches, and manipulate the intervals vocally as they sung the Gregorian chants. This is why people are being skeptical about the whole thing. We know the 7th note was added by Giovanni Battista Doni in the 16th century. yet they are supposed to be at least 2000 years older. We also know where "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti" comes from. The fact is, we know where "Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La" comes from. ![]() ![]() So basically, the people developing this conspiracy claim that those in power are trying to revise history to discredit the original solfeggio frequencies, and there's a reason: they hold spiritual and metaphysical power. So the question becomes why and what happened? The Development of Guido's Solfeggio Frequencies Soon after that, we're all using the seven-note system mentioned above. Put this together with the staff notation, his Guidonian hand system, and this hexachord scale, and it was so clear that this guy was the master that Pope John XIX invited him to the Vatican to discuss it. It's said that as a monk and music theory master, he saw how hard it was for all his fellow monks to learn the Gregorian chants, so he developed a mnemonic system that goes like this: He was an Italian music theorist who's credited with being the inventor of the modern musical staff and the notation that goes along with it, replacing the old neume system that was stifling the learning process of all musicians. But then we have this guy Guido of Arezzo who lived from circa 990 A.D. The system above is supposedly the oldest, stretching back to even 1000 B.C. While the true origin of this 7-note diatonic scale is unknown, the furthest we can trace it back is to the Arabic solmization (same as solfeggio) system and the Hindustani and Carnatic classical styles from India. There's the "Fixed Do" we learn as kids that matches the C-Major scale and then the "Movable Do" we learn later that helps us hear and sing the varying intervals in other Major and Minor scales. It's used in the West from elementary school all the way through college to teach which pitches belong to the scales that we currently use. Solfège (or Solfeggio) is the classic educational method all of us were exposed to growing up. I consider it "infotainment." I don't really care if it's true or not, it's just fun and interesting. It's an interesting trip of musical education with large bent of paranoia and new age thinking. While there's a lot of info out there about this, you can consider this post a condensed summary of it all. The concept is that there has been a deliberate shifting of the fundamental frequencies of our Western scales away from an ancient and sacred 6-tone scale of solfeggio frequencies towards a less auspicious set of tones. In my adventures through the cynical side of the internet, I came across an interesting conspiracy idea that strikes at the very core of Western music. ![]()
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