II. Impulses of Transformation for Man's Artistic Evolution I

To translate this we would have to say: “So that thy servants may sing with liberated vocal cords the wonders of thy works, pardon the sins of the lips which have become earthly—one might say which have become capable of speech—O Saint John.” It was to one who could hear the heavenly Jerusalem that men looked up in this connection. Let us extract certain things that lie hidden in such a verse: Ut (this word was later replaced by do), resonare ( re) , mira ( mi), famuli ( fa), solve ( sol), labii ( la), S.J. ( si). So you find that ‘do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si’, the names of the notes in medieval musical notation, have been carefully hidden in this verse.