Editing Guido of Arezzo (section)

==Context and sources==
Information on Guido's life is scarce; the [[music historian]] [[Charles Burney]] asserted that the paucity of records was because Guido was a monk.{{sfn|Miller|1973|p=240}} Burney furthered that, in the words of musicologist Samuel D. Miller, "Guido's modesty, selfless abandon from material gain life, and obedience to authority tended to obscure his moves, work, and motivations".{{sfn|Miller|1973|p=239}} The scholarly outline of Guido's life has been subject to much mythologization and misunderstandings.{{sfn|Ruini|2004}} These dubious claims include that he spent much of life in France (recorded as early as [[Johannes Trithemius]]'s 1494 ''De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis''); that he trained in the [[Saint-Maur-des-Fossés]] near Paris;{{sfn|Ruini|2004}} and unsupported rumours that he was imprisoned because of plots from those hostile to his innovations.{{sfn|Miller|1973|p=239}}

The primary surviving documents associated with Guido are two undated letters; a dedicatory letter to Bishop [[Tedald (bishop of Arezzo)|Tedald of Arezzo]] and a letter to his colleague Michael of Pomposa, known as the ''Epistola ad Michaelem''.{{sfn|Palisca|2001a|loc="1. Life"}}{{refn|The ''Epistola ad Michaelem'' is also known as the ''Epistola de ignoto cantu'' or the ''Epistola de cantu ignoto''.<ref name="BL">{{cite web |title=Harley MS 3199 |publisher=[[The British Library]] |url=http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3199 |access-date=27 August 2021 }}</ref>{{sfn|Palisca|2001a|loc="Writings"}}|name=Epistola|group=n}} These letters provide enough information and context to map the main events and chronology of Guido's life,{{sfn|Palisca|2001a|loc="1. Life"}} though Miller notes that they do "not permit a detailed, authoritative sketch".{{sfn|Miller|1973|p=239}}