Thomas Christensen, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Eighteenth-Century Science and the "Corps Sonore:" The Scientific Background to Rameau's "Principle of Harmony", Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 23-50
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