"The Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music" (1409) is a concise summary of the traditional doctrine of ratios. In "A Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord" (1413) Prosdocimo established, for the first time in Italy, a complete Pythagorean monochord, dividing the octave into seven natural notes, five flats, and five sharps not enharmonically equivalent to the flats.
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"The Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music" (1409) is a concise summary of the traditional doctrine of ratios. In "A Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord" (1413) Prosdocimo established, for the first time in Italy, a complete Pythagorean monochord, dividing the octave into seven natural notes, five flats, and five sharps not enharmonically equivalent to the flats.
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