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FEMUSINDO.com - Al-Farabi is the inventor of the notation system for vocal rhythm. Al-Farabi's full name is Abu Nasr Muhammad bin Tarkhan bin Uzlag Al Farabi.
He is known as one of the music experts or maestros in the field of music. He is the person who discovered the notes in music that have been known so far.
Al-Farabi was born in 259 Hijriah or 872 AD from Turkic parents in Farab, precisely in a small hamlet called Wasij, near the province of Farab, Turkistan; or now near Otrar, Khazakstan.
Al-Farabi spent most of his life in Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty, before moving to Aleppo under the rule of Sayf al-Dawla.
In addition to the inventor of musical notes ---discovering the pitch system or solfegio solmization do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti, he was a writer, scientist and Muslim philosopher.
Al-Farabi wrote various works, ranging from epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, science (natural philosophy), political science, grammar, and music.
Al-Farabi who had another name Alpharabius in the Latin world (West) died in Damascus, Syria, in 951. (*)
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