#mnemonics

music theory diagrams (& a guidonian hand)

from a composite manuscript containing various works on music theory (by guido of arezzo, hermann of reichenau, theogerus of metz, and others). southern germany, late 12th c.

Learn about Mnemonic Devices

I was recently struggling to find a way to relate all of these characters together to remember them easier—since they all look very similar.

This is what I've finally come up with.

き (ki) is a key. It opens locks/doors/safes/etc.

さ (sa) is a SAnded down key, the original key could not fit in the keyhole, so you had to refine the edges (remove one horizontal line)