Most of these notes date back to singing lessons given nine hundred years ago. The teacher was an Italian called Guido D’ Arezzo or Aretino. Music in his day had a scale of six notes. One of the hymns sung at the time was based on this scale. So Guido decided to name the six notes after the six syllables on which they fell. The hymn was sung in Latin, so the syllables came from Latin words.
To begin with the six notes were named ut, re, ma, fa, sol and la. Those were the ones Guido and his pupils used. They stayed like that for five hundred years. In the sixteenth century si was added. A century later ut was changed for doh. And in the nineteenth century ti replaced si in Britain. Some people still use the old-fashioned spellings for the names of the notes.
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