Howard Goodall's Big Bangs

The Thin Red Line: Guido of Arezzo & the Invention of Notation (1x1)

Air date: Mar 12, 2000

Howard’s first programme traces early forms of musical notation, where simple accents were placed above words to show whether the tune went up or down. This leads him on to investigate the work of Guido, whose idea to draw a fixed-pitch line around which to organise these accents led to the musical stave as we know it today.