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Guidonian (iou)



Guidonian adjective. E18.
[from Guidon- taken as stem of Guido (see below) + -IAN.]
Music. Of or pertaining to the 11th-cent. Italian musician Guido d'Arezzo, the reputed inventor of the system of hexachords. Chiefly in Guidonian hand, a drawing of the left hand marked with the degrees of the scale and the solmization according to the system devised by Guido.