A thousand years before Bach, Mozart, Beyoncé, or your Spotify playlist, a Benedictine monk quietly invented the entire system that makes Western music possible. Staff lines, Do–Re–Mi, sight-singing, the logic of melody—none of it exists without Guido of Arezzo. This is the story of how a frustrated choir teacher gave the world modern music… all because he wanted monks to sing on pitch.

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