And perhaps a bit late ... but striking!
To name the six degrees of its hexachord, Guido d'Arezzo used the first syllables of a Latin religious song, the Hymn St John the Baptist, the text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paul Deacon (Paulus Diaconus in Latin). Ut
queant laxis
Resonare fibers
Mira gestorum
Famula tuorum,
Solve pollut
labii reatum,
hexachords The system (range of 6 notes) is adopted but is complex. The names of the notes is relative: Ut is not a fixed note at a given frequency, but simply the first note of the mode.
Subsequently Jean-Baptiste Doni (early thirteenth century) replaced by Do Ut to facilitate pronunciation and it also adds a 7th grade, Si, using the initials of John (J and I was not differentiated in Latin):
Sancte Ioannes.
Translation: "So that Your servants may sing loudly your wonderful achievements, taketh away the sin of their lips stained, John. .
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