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2011-10-04 18:50:25 (6646 views)
As CB351 points out,
The earliest known letter notation in the Western musical tradition appears in the textbook on music De institutione musica by the 6th-century philosopher Boethius.
The letter names are sometimes called the "Boethian notation" after Boethius, a Roman writer and statesman who lived in the 5th century. He was in the service of Emperor Theodoric, was accused of treason and executed in the year 524 A.D. He was the first to document the use of letters as names for notes.
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