Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aretin, Guy

by John Weeks Moore

Aretin, Guy. A Benedictine monk, who lived in the eleventh century. He rendered himself famous by discovering a new method of learning music, and was said to have been the inventor of the six notes of music, "Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La." There can be but little doubt that Guy Aretin and Guido Aretina are one and the same. Guido Aretina, mentioned below,

is the known inventor of the six notes claimed by Guy Aretin.