Composers on Mathematical Music
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Athanasius Kircher, another inventor, moved in still other directions. In 1660 he constructed a composing machine with the fine name “Arca Musarithmica.” Scale, rhythm, and tempo relations were represented by numbers and number relations, indeed arithmetic, from which the machine got its name.

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