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Ut queant laxis
Latin hymn in honour of John the Baptist
"Ut queant laxis" or "Hymnus in Ioannem" is a Latinhymn in honor of John the Baptist, written in HoratianSapphics[1] with text traditionally attributed to Paulus Diaconus, the eighth-century Lombard historian.
It is famous for its part in the history of musical notation, in particular solmization. The hymn belongs to the tradition of Gregorian chant.
Ut queant laxis lyrics
It is not known who wrote the melody. Guido of Arezzo possibly composed it,[2] but he more likely used an existing melody. A variant of the melody appears in an eleventh-century musical setting of Horace's poem Ode to Phyllis (4.11) recorded in a manuscript in France.[3]
Structure
The hymn uses classical metres: the Sapphic stanza consisting of three Sapphic hendecasyllables followed by an adonius (a type of dimeter).
The chant is useful for teaching singing because of the way it uses successive notes of the scale: the first six
