Walter Odington
Walter Odington (* around 1260 possibly in Oddington , Gloucestershire or Oddington , Oxfordshire ; † after 1346 (?)) Was an English monk , mathematician and music theorist .
Life and meaning
Odington lived as a Benedictine monk in Evesham and Oxford . In addition to two astronomical treatises, he wrote De speculatione musices .
In his music treatise, Odington was one of the first to give the frequency ratio of the pure third as 5: 4 and called it concordes discordie . In the tradition of the Pythagorean consonance theory, he explains the ditone with the proportion 81:64 as dissonant and mentions that most of the people consider this interval to be consonant because of its proximity to the interval with the proportion 5: 4.
It was not until Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja that the pure third with the proportion 5: 4 took the place of the ditone with the proportion 81:64 for the first time.
literature
- Odington, Walter, Magister, Walterus, Evesham. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Edward C. Phillips: Walter Odington . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 11, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1911.
Web links
- Walter Odington: De speculatione musice . (CS I: 182-250)
- Walter Odington: Summa de speculatione musice .
- Frederick Hammond, Peter M. Lefferts: Odington, Walter. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Neumaier: What is a sound system? (= Sources and studies on music history from antiquity to the present. No. 9) Publishing house Peter Lang. Frankfurt a. M. / Bern / New York 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9492-8 , p. 215 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja: Musica practica , 1st tract, chapter 2. Bologna 1482, ed.Wolf, Leipzig 1911
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Odington, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English monk, mathematician and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1260 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Oddington , Gloucestershire or Oddington , Oxfordshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1346 |