Inventors MUSIC FIRST

Inventors MUSIC FIRST

Scales which later became the basis of the musical notation was found out by Muslim scientists. This important fact was first revealed by Jean Benjamin de La Borde, a scientist and a French composer, in his Essai sur la Musique Ancienne et Moderne (1780). In his book La Borde alphabetically mention musical notation invented by Muslim scholars. It consists of notation silabels (which we know as solmisasi) in the Arabic alphabet, namely Shad Mi Fa La Sin Dal Ra. According to La Borde, the notation is then transliterated Arabic alphabet by European scientists into Latin, who somehow claimed as hymns St. John.

This transliteration was first used by the Italian musician Guido Arezzo (995-1050) which is famous for the theory of Guido's Hand her. British Channel 4 program which broadcast the event said that music history was the one creator Guido solmisasi system, without any express findings of fact by Muslim scientists. However, La Borde is not alone. Other European composers, Guillaume-André Villoteau (1759-1839), took a stance like La Borde, which recognizes that the creation solmisasi are Muslims.

La Borde conduct research by comparing the notation derived from Guido's Hand with berabjad Arabic notation. La Borde came to the conclusion that Guido's Hand is no more cheat Guido of Arezzo notation system invented by Muslim scholars.

"Physically, the Arab berabjad solmisasi display serves as a role model by Guido Arezzo," wrote La Borde. He then made a monograph that displays critical comparison between models solmisasi findings and Muslim scientists made solmisasi Guido Arezzo which is then recognized as music notation until now.

Arabic notation
Arabic notation used since the 9th century, when Muslim music experts like Jonah Alkatib (765) and Al-Khalil (791), founder of the system of Arabic prosody and lexicography, which is followed by al-Ma'mun (d. 833) and Ishaq Al-Mausili (d. 850), introduced a system of musical notation in the book are well-known in the West, Book of Notes and Rhythms and the Great Book of Songs, in addition to the Book of Al-Kabir its Mausiqul Ibn Al-Farabi (872-950) .

Findings Al-Ma'mun and al-Mausili researched and developed by Abu Yusuf ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (801-874), Yahya ibn Yahya ibn Ali (d. 1048), Ahmad Ibn Muhammad As-Sarakhsi (wafat1286), Talha Ibn Mansur bin Tahir, Thabit ibn Qurra (d. 1288), and other Muslim scientists. Dominucus Gundissalinus (d. 1151) and The Count Souabe Hermanus Reichenau, two Western musicologists, researching and developing the findings of Al-Kindi. In addition, theories of music created by Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd was also influential in the development of European music as their theories in medical science.

Before claiming Arezzo Guido music notation with its Guido's Hand, music theory has been growing rapidly in Spain through Ziryab (789-857), musician reliably and botanist who emigrated from Baghdad, and Ibn Firnas (d. 888) who introduced oriental music to the public Spanish and taught for the first time in the schools in Andalusia.

Guido, Constantine African Students
Soriano, a researcher of music from Spain, revealing facts about Guido Arezzo. Musician is considered the inventor of musical notation was studying Catalogna, a Latin music theory book that contains the findings in the field of music by Muslim scientists.

Hunke, another researcher, wrote that the Arabs who form the alphabet notation musical notation written in Catalogna in the 11th century and published in Monte Cassino, a region in Italy that was inhabited by Muslim communities and places never visited Constantie African, Tunisian Muslim scientists that goes to Italy via Salerno. One of the science that is taught by the African Constantine the barbarians and backward in Salerno is the music. All translations are done to the African Constantine books findings Muslim scientists is the reference European students.

Moreover, Constantine also open up the opportunity for them to learn to Spain, which is when it is being enlivened by a college professor of music with the scientists / musicians like Ziryab Muslim and Ibn Farnes. Many students graduate from music school in Spain from Italy, one of which is the Aurillac Gerbert (d. 1003), who became known as the founder of the music in European countries and spawned countless experts western music.