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This document discusses an article from the Journal of Music Theory about Marin Mersenne and his ideas about evolving tonal theory in the 17th century. Mersenne made important contributions in recognizing that frequency ratios, rather than string lengths, represented musical intervals. He also reversed the traditional definitions of "arithmetic" and "harmonic" divisions of the octave based on this insight. The article examines Mersenne

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