Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Giovanni Battista Doni (c. 1593 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having changed the name of note Ut (C) renaming it \"Do\" (in the \"Doh Ray Me ...\" sequence known as solfège) after his own family name.He was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist in his day, 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, one of the early semi-scientific/academic societies that flourished in Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary in 1612."@en }
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- Giovanni_Battista_Doni abstract "Giovanni Battista Doni (c. 1593 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having changed the name of note Ut (C) renaming it \"Do\" (in the \"Doh Ray Me ...\" sequence known as solfège) after his own family name.He was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist in his day, 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, one of the early semi-scientific/academic societies that flourished in Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary in 1612.".