GUID G, 
tation. 
Te “fimaeded belt i in aes toh and ise RA in ié- 
menting the calamities to which Italy was at that time 
expol 
va IDO Aretrxo, or Guipo p’AREzzo, a monk 
of the order of Saint Benedi&t, who flourifhed in the 
eleventh century, and diftinguifhed himfelf by framing a 
od of teaching boys to fing, ot laying the found- 
Few particulars 
have 
heen known, ify fuckaly for his. fame, he had not himfelf 
s the mot i important t and honourable events 
in a few mon 
‘uled to do in fevoral years.” This author hkewife ees 
us that the fingular fervice which Guids had rendered 
mufic, havin ing been, communicated to pope Benedidt VIII. 
that pontiff feat for him to Rome, and treated him with 
great kindnefs: a SS oi which happened; according 
to Baronius, in the year 
Itfeems, however, as “f Guido had not ech f fo far daz- 
led by the fplendour of a court, or ‘the honours he’ ae 
edat ome, as to remain long: in that city; for 
edit dying i in 1024, we find by his own letter to the suk 
Michael; that’ his fucceffor, John XX. or, as fome fay, the 
XI ed fent: three meffengers to invite him to return 
_ ‘to Roine.- On his arrival there a fecond time, his reception 
bie the: new pontiff was {till more flattering than from 
‘his ‘hin ek ‘He frequently condefeended to converfe 
“a Gu ido fir fhewed him his Antiphonarium, or 
notatin ‘of the mafs for the whole year, his holinefs regard- 
ing it as : ‘a prodigy, would not quit his feat till he had learned 
to fing ‘chant 1 in it by Guido’ method, and: had by 
this means accomplifhed fee himfelf which he hardly be- 
4eved pofile when i it was reported to have been done by 
tie Popes ‘defirous to retain him in his fervice, preffed 
continue at Rome; but Guido, finding himfelf unable, 
3 Fe bad flate of his eek, to 8 the approaching heat 
‘ad bad air of that city during fummer, left it, upon a 
ace id returning” thither in winter, to ee: his new 
nef 
m to fettle him in his. convent, that at length he 
seen by his future oS 
ut the time of Dante, b 
swell as by Petrarca, Beds s 
erfons ich f fpeak or enitdoon the fabjes of 
‘em of malic expres the leaft doubt of. aut 
~ 
century ; and 
account of t 
; - buted to Pa fet itis vain to feek them. 
‘exprefely claim any = the —— ; and his expreffions are 
hopes, as he wf “of extending the ame of 
m. arranged into” hexachords. 
all Sp te 
individual ; an art utterly incapable of being brought to 
any degree of perfection, but by a flow an oD im- 
-provement, and the a efforts of | ingenious men dur 
feveral centuries, muft een trivial and itieotdcdabie 
in its infancy ; and the ‘irl attempt at its ufe-neceflarily 
cae ee aud clum mfy. 
0, however, is one éf'thble favenred-ntimesite-which 
He has lon 
he is Known to have an inherent ane and natural title, but 
fuch as accident has put into the power of his benefaétors.; 
and when once mankind have acquired a habit of generofity, 
unlimited by envy and rival claims, they wait not till the 
plate or charity-box is held out to them, but give freely and 
unfolicited whatever they find without trouble, and can 
elinguih without lofs or effort. 
But, in order to afcertain with fome degree of cateak 
and accuracy how much modern mufic has been*indebted to 
this celebrated monk, it feems neceflary to give a lift and 
analyfis of the writings: that have been attributed to him. 
a€t which is moit frequently mentioned, and, except 
by the few that have feen it, is fuppofed to contain all the . 
inventions with which Guido has been sm is the 
icrologus. Of this work there are three ong 
the in the kine of France’s library te Paris; the 
moft ancient account of which, No. 7211, is'of the twelfth 
of this we obtained a tranfcript, which was 
collated with the other two. Itis a fhort — in monkifh- 
Latin, and full of obfcurities, containing an ac 
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“duthor’s method-of teaching boys to fing, swith rater for the: 
proper per formance and compofition of the plain chant... 
‘Lhough it is natural to expect | to find i in eimai tunatile an 
nly attri- 
“Ble! does not 
ak as an inventor ; ; 
ere he feem 
“account of the notes begins: thus : ‘In. primis ; 
Grzcum @ modernis adjeGum.” 
Another expreffion fevmnds to imply that: the ‘Aineion of 
ention ; for he fays, 
His invention of the | 
to this treatife 5 ; Ee ion hae: gives the fcale he never men- 
“the: term once wfed in the whole manu- 
tions” them 5 
tat aly 
we fuppofe See Scae, 
the ho cet ving added t rai eA. 
he calls it; (or he fays, « ad i eo Oe aka 
