Aribo Scholasticus (Aribo)

ARIBONE SCOLASTICO (Aribo Scholasticus). — Musician, who lived in the eleventh century. Together with Giovanni di Liegi, he was the well-known and authoritative disseminator of the theories of Guido d’Arezzo. He left us a treatise De musica, reproduced by Gerbert in Scriptores ecclesiastici. He seems to have been born in Frisinga, because p. Martini, in a manuscript of his preserved in the music conservatory of Bologna, calls him Frisingensis.

BIBL.: M. Gerbert, Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra, II, St-Blasien 1784, pp. 197–230. Francesco Coradini
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“ARIBONE SCOLASTICO (ARIBO SCHOLASTICUS).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 1116. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/aribone-scolastico-aribo-scholasticus.