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[This page uses music theory work mainly by Gene Ward Smith and Mike Battaglia.]
[This page uses music theory work mainly by Gene Ward Smith and Mike Battaglia.]


'''Rhooc Avniin Askuucis''' ([[Anvirese]]: [roːts əvˈniːn əˈskuːtsis] fT 2036 – fT 2100 (aged 64)) was an [[Verse:Tricin/Anvir|Anvirese]] music theorist and composer.
'''Rhooc Avniin Askuucis''' ([[Anvirese]]: [roːts əvˈniːn əˈskuːtsis] fT 2036 – fT 2100 (aged 64)) was an [[Verse:Tricin/Anvir|Anvirese]] composer.


==Traits==
==Traits==
*Warm and magnanimous, but can have a contrarian streak
*Warm and magnanimous
*Languages:
*Languages:
** (Pretty archaic) [[Anvirese]] (native speaker)
** (Pretty archaic) [[Anvirese]] (native speaker)
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A child prodigy, Rhooc was taught ''ngams'' and math from a young age. She started auditing music and math classes before she was 5. She was allowed to skip boarding school and to enroll in the University of Flian in math at age 10 by taking an entrance exam. She was an exceptionally gifted student and graduated in mathematics and music with honors at age 16 (fT 2052). She then studied composition and instrumentation with a number of composers.
A child prodigy, Rhooc was taught ''ngams'' and math from a young age. She started auditing music and math classes before she was 5. She was allowed to skip boarding school and to enroll in the University of Flian in math at age 10 by taking an entrance exam. She was an exceptionally gifted student and graduated in mathematics and music with honors at age 16 (fT 2052). She then studied composition and instrumentation with a number of composers.


In fT 2056 Askuucis returned as a doctoral student in mathematics to Flian University, where she specialized in number theory. Under the supervision of Esngoa rith Mnang, Askuucis was awarded a doctorate for her dissertation in fT 2061.
In fT 2056 Askuucis returned as a doctoral student in mathematics to Flian University, where she specialized in combinatorics and number theory. Under the supervision of Esngoa rith Mnang, Askuucis was awarded a doctorate for her dissertation in fT 2061.


==Later life==
==Later life==
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==Contributions to music theory==
==Contributions to music theory==
Building on Jopah's and Tăhus's work on constant structure scales, in her treatise ''Some Equal Divisions of the Octave'' Askuucis described a variety of equal temperaments derived from equating the step sizes in constant-structure scales. Though her work was not the first one to describe the process of tempering out commas (it was known for small commas such as 2401/2400), nor the first to mention the idea of equal temperament, it was the first to systematically derive equal temperaments from other scales.
Askuucis asked why the same scale sizes - e.g. 7, 10, 12, 19, 22, 27, 31 - kept showing up for "good" constant structures. This led her to discover how to formalize the notion of "good" EDOs in terms of the maxima of the Riemann zeta function on the critical strip, and discovered 19edo this way.
[That should be it theory-wise.]
==Compositions==  
==Compositions==  
===Partial list===
===Partial list===
*A collection of works in various equal temperaments, à la Blackwood (?)
*Winter Solstice Cantatas
*Winter Solstice Cantatas
*Many keyboard pieces
*Many keyboard pieces
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
*Her thesis (fT 2061) + a couple of other math papers (Anvirese)
*???
*''Some Equal Divisions of the Octave'' (Anvirese)
*''The Riemann zeta function measures the consonance of equal temperaments'' (Anvirese)
 
==Personal life and views==
==Personal life and views==
A lesbian, Askuucis never had children. She had a few female lovers throughout her life.
A lesbian, Askuucis never had children. She had a few female lovers throughout her life.
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