Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do – the familiar major scale comes from what we call the solfege

system of sight-reading. We can trace the linage of this practice all the way back to the writings of a Benedictine monk of the early 11th century, Guido de Arezzo.

Who invented the Do-Re-Mi?

Origin. In eleventh-century Italy, the music theorist Guido of Arezzo invented a notational system that named the six notes of the hexachord after the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis, the "Hymn to St. John the Baptist", yielding ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.

Who invented Solmization?

The system that predominates in European music was introduced by an 11th-century Italian monk, Guido of Arezzo, who derived it from a Latin hymn, “Ut queant laxis,” the first six lines of which begin on successively higher notes of the scale.