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GAMUT (from the Greek letter gamma, used as a musical symbol, and ut, the first syllable of the medieval hymn Sanctus Johannes)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 450 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GAMUT (from the Greek letter gamma, used as a musical symbol, and ut, the first syllable of the medieval hymn Sanctus Johannes) , a
term
  in music used to mean generally the whole
compass
  or range of notes possessed by an
instrument
  or voice. Historically, however, the sense has developed from its stricter musical meaning of a scale (the recognized musical scale of any period), originating in the medieval "
great
  scale," of which the invention has usually been ascribed to Guido of Arezzo (q.v.) in the 11th
century
 . The whole question is somewhat obscure, but, in the
evolution
  of musical notation out of the classical alphabetical
system
 , the invention of the medieval gamut is more properly assigned to Hucbald (d. 930). In his
system
  of scales the semitone was always between the 2nd and 3rd of a tetrachord,
as G, A, 5 B, C, so the B and jr F of the second
octave
  were in false relation to the b B and ; F of the first two tetrachords. To


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