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==Later life== | ==Later life== | ||
Later in life Sgutsis made a living performing, conducting and selling her compositions. She published her treatise for the first time in fT 1166. | Later in life Sgutsis made a living performing, conducting and selling her compositions. She published her treatise for the first time in fT 1166. | ||
In fT 1190, Sgutsis secluded herself, intending to focus solely on composition. She lived in a house in Sŋoran until she died of a stroke in fT 1200. | In fT 1190, Sgutsis secluded herself, intending to focus solely on composition. She lived in a house in Sŋoran until she died of a stroke in fT 1200. | ||
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==Contributions to music theory== | ==Contributions to music theory== | ||
Despite her pioneering work on EDOs, Sgutsis did not consider herself an EDO advocate -- she viewed her work on EDOs as mathematical curiosity. She found EDOs too restrictive (if the division was not fine enough as to effectively be just intonation). | |||
*Many JI constant structure scales including scales with 16, 18, 23, and other numbers of notes | *Many JI constant structure scales including scales with 16, 18, 23, and other numbers of notes | ||
**Constant structures generated by step sizes | **Constant structures generated by step sizes | ||