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In fT 2090, Askuucis retired from her academic post and secluded herself, intending to focus solely on composition. She lived in a house in Sŋooron until she died of a stroke in fT 2096. | In fT 2090, Askuucis retired from her academic post and secluded herself, intending to focus solely on composition. She lived in a house in Sŋooron until she died of a stroke in fT 2096. | ||
==Contributions to music theory== | ==Contributions to music theory== | ||
Building on Jopah's constant structure scales, Askuucis | Building on Jopah's constant structure scales, Askuucis described a variety of equal temperaments derived from equating the step sizes in constant-structure scales. She believed that this development was a step [no pun intended] towards more parsimonious music. Though the process of tempering out small commas such as 2401/2400 was already known, Askuucis's work was the first to investigate equal temperaments. | ||
Askuucis formalized the notion of "good" EDOs in terms of the Riemann zeta function, and discovered 19edo this way. [Would this be possible before computers?] | |||
==Compositions== | ==Compositions== | ||