Cover of Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

For many years, Guido d'Arezzo, a young man from Tuscany, has imagined that his system of lines and spaces can be used as a written language of music and he is determined to make his ideas work.

Subject
biographyhistory
Themes
music
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 40 pages

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