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==Contributions to music theory== | ==Contributions to music theory== | ||
Sgutsitn's best known written work is her treatise, which describes: | Sgutsitn's best known written work is her treatise, which describes: | ||
*Various regular temperaments and the equal temperaments supporting them. The equal temperaments supporting a regular temperament also characterize that temperament. | *Various regular temperaments and the equal temperaments supporting them. The equal temperaments supporting a regular temperament also characterize that temperament. | ||
**(The appendix gives proofs that the algorithms she uses work; however she didn't have the modern algebraic language to describe what in effect she was doing, making the treatment mathematically less clean than it could have been.) | **(The appendix gives proofs that the algorithms she uses work; however she didn't have the modern algebraic language to describe what in effect she was doing, making the treatment mathematically less clean than it could have been.) | ||
**She describes a temperament as a span of unison vectors/commas (Note: The commas generate the kernel characterizing a regular temperament relative to the JI space. There are multiple valid generating sets that generate the same kernel, thus multiple comma-sets that characterizes a temperament.) | **She describes a temperament as a span of unison vectors/commas (Note: The commas generate the kernel characterizing a regular temperament relative to the JI space. There are multiple valid generating sets that generate the same kernel, thus multiple comma-sets that characterizes a temperament.) | ||
*Scale-wise... images of constant-structure scales; in addition, MOSes like those found in various world musics. | *Scale-wise... images of constant-structure scales; in addition, MOSes like those found in various world musics. | ||
*Equal temperaments with good divisions of the fifth. | *Links between the Riemann zeta function and "good" equal temperaments. | ||
*Equal temperaments with "good" (highly composite) divisions of the fifth. | |||
Other stuff: | Other stuff: | ||