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Giovanni Doni is known for having changed the name of the note "Ut" to "Do". He convinced his contemporaries to make the change by arguing that "Do" is easier to pronounce than "Ut," and that "Do" is an abbreviation for "Dominus." the Latin word for The Lord, who is the tonic and root of the world.
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Ancient music did not have a regular beat, because the rhythm followed that of the poetry. Modern recitative music is also sung without a beat . . . This kind of theatrical historicism bore fruit in 1640. Guided by G.B. Doni and J.J. Bouchard, Cardinal
Francesco Barberini's long-standing interest
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school (a French approach to historical law studies). However, since Cujas died a few years before
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This approach to legal studies was admired during the early French revolutionary period because it emphasised the importance of early Roman law, rather than the pretensions of French kings.
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There is much academic speculation that
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A seventh note, "Si" (from the initials for "Sancte
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