Components (= “inventions” ) within the European Medieval system of musical composition

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Component 1

Discovery of octaves, 5ths, octave equivalence and tuning

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Component 2

Creation of the Greater Perfect System based on diatonic tetrachords

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Component 3

Pitch language based on 8 diatonic modes

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Component 4

Notation on a 4-line staff using heightened pitch symbols

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Component 5

The solfege system: do-re-mi (ut-re-mi), etc

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Component 6

Pitch alterations to avoid B—F tritones

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Component 7

The Guidonian hand teaching tool (for tritone avoidance)

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Component 8

Invention of a system of rhythmic notation (=note durations + time signatures)