| 词条 | Walter Odington |
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Walter Odington was a 14th-century English Benedictine scientific and especially musical theory author. He is also known as Walter of Evesham, by some writers confounded with Walter of Eynsham, who lived about fifty years earlier, died not earlier than 1330. During the first part of his religious life he was stationed at Evesham and later removed to Oxford, where he was engaged in astronomical and mathematical work as early as 1316. WritingsHe wrote chiefly on scientific subjects. His work De Speculatione Musices was first published in complete form in Edmond de Coussemaker's Scriptores; other works are in manuscript only. In this treatise, a remarkable work written at Evesham and therefore certainly before 1316, according to Riemann before 1300, the author gathered together practically all the knowledge of the theory of music possessed at his time and added some theoretical considerations of his own (including reintroducing the just major third).[1] A discussion of his work is given by Riemann,{{full|date=September 2013}} who claims for him the distinction of having, before the close of the thirteenth century, established on theoretical grounds the consonance of minor and major thirds. Davey{{full|date=September 2013}} enumerates the following works:
References1. ^Révész, Géza (2001). Introduction to the Psychology of Music, p.28. {{ISBN|9780486416786}}.
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