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From: midkiff@portia.Stanford.EDU (Neil Midkiff)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical,sci.math,sci.chem,sci.bio,soc.history
Subject: Re: Scientists and Mathematicians Who Wrote Music
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.181126.8148@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:11:26 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.013102.7369@ddsw1.MCS.COM> pfleury@ddsw1.MCS.COM
(Patrick J. Fleury) writes:
>
>   I notice that nobody has mentioned Marin Mersenne yet.  He
>   has Mersenne primes named after him and he is also the author
>   of an "aria" on which part of "Ancient Airs and Dances" by 
>   Respighi is based.  

He also, I recall from something I've read, was the first to describe
the mathematical details of equal temperament.  

-Neil