Giovanni Battista Doni
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Giovanni Battista Doni (bap. 13 March 1595 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" in solfège.
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Born | 13 March 1595 Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Died | 1 December 1647 (aged 52) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Occupation | Music theorist, musicologist, writer |
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In his day, he was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist, and from 1640 to 1647 he occupied the Chair of Eloquence at the University of Florence and was a prominent member of the city's Accademia della Crusca, the premier academic philologic society of Florence and Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary and grammar in 1612.