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The Invention of the Musical Staff: Journey to Polyphony

In Episode 4 of our series, we examine the "UI Upgrade" that changed human history: the birth of the four-line musical staff. For centuries, music was a matter of memory and "noise," but through the work of 11th-century monks, it became a visual science. In this episode: The Evolution of Notation: Moving beyond primitive neumes into a structured system of pitch. The Solmization Revolution: A performance of Ut Queant Laxis, the hymn that gave us the "Do-Re-Mi" (Ut-Re-Mi) scale we still use 1,000 years later. The Birth of Polyphony: How the ability to see music on a grid allowed the Church to move from a single voice to the complex beauty of parallel organum. Music performed in this episode: Victimae Paschali Laudes (Gregorian Chant) Ut Queant Laxis (Hymnus in honorem S. Ioannis Baptistae) Tu Patris Sempiternus (Parallel Organum)