Cardan, Jerome

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Cardan, Jerome

Cardan, Jerome, Italian physician and music theorist; b. Pavia, Sept. 24, 1501; d. Rome, Sept. 20, 1576. He studied music in Milan and medicine at the Univ. of Padua (M.D., 1526). From 1562 to 1571 he was prof, of medicine at the Univ. of Bologna. He wrote two valuable treatises on music, both entitled De musica (1546, 1574); see C. Miller, The Writings of J. C. on Music, Musicological Studies and Documents, XXXII (1973).

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J. Eckman, J. C (Baltimore, 1946).

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