Who invented music, that is the actual staff, notes, and other readable things on paper?

sjhodges825

Boethius http://www.musicbizadvice.com/who_invented_musical_notation.htm Dec 31 06, 1:03 PM

zbeckabee

Note: "Iconography documents the existence of music in prehistoric times." http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html?styletimeline.html Dec 31 06, 2:22 PM

Arpeggionist

There were musical notations long before the Greeks. The Sumerians had some sort of Cuniform notation, and Arabic musical notation existed almost as soon as Islam began to spread around the Mediterranian. The Israelites had some sort of notation and modes as well. Dec 31 06, 4:35 PM

Arpeggionist

The modern musical notation staff is generally attributed to Guido d'Arezzo. While this Italian composer did invent the "Guidonian Hand", a system of signs on the fingers that helped singers with their notes, there really isn't much evidence of his invention of the staff itself. The staff and notation marks of western music took about 500 years to develop from old neumes to modern notation. Dec 31 06, 4:35 PM