Editing Ut queant laxis (section)

{{Short description|Latin hymn in honour of John the Baptist}}
[[File:Ut queant laxis Gregorian notation Benedictine tradition.gif|thumb|upright=1.4|"Ut queant laxis" in [[neume]] notation]]
[[File:Ut queant.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|"{{Lang|la|Ut queant laxis|italic=no}}" in modern notation]]
"'''{{Lang|la|Ut queant laxis|italic=no}}'''" or "'''{{Lang|la|Hymnus in Ioannem|italic=no}}'''" is a [[Latin]] [[hymn]] in honor of [[John the Baptist]], written in [[Horatian]] [[Sapphic stanza|Sapphics]]<ref>Stuart Lyons, ''Music in the Odes of Horace'' (2010), Oxford, Aris & Phillips, {{ISBN|978-0-85668-844-7}}</ref> with text traditionally attributed to [[Paulus Diaconus]], the eighth-century [[Lombards|Lombard]] historian. It is famous for its part in the history of [[musical notation]], in particular [[solmization]].  The hymn belongs to the tradition of [[Gregorian chant]].

It is not known who wrote the melody. [[Guido of Arezzo]] possibly composed it,<ref name=Larousse>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Ut_queant_laxis/170480 Ut queant laxis] in ''Encyclopédie Larousse''</ref> but he more likely used an existing melody. A variant of the melody appears in an eleventh-century musical setting of Horace's poem [[Odes_(Horace)|''Ode to Phyllis'']] ([[ wikisource:la:Carmina (Horatius)/Liber IV/Carmen XI|4.11]]) recorded in a manuscript in France.<ref>This manuscript H425 is held in [[University of Montpellier|Bibliothèque de l'école de Médecine]], [[Montpellier]].</ref>