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He treated music as one of the mathematical sciences alongside arithmetic, geometry and astronomy; he wrote treatises on the oud and its fret system and used a notation that marks notes with letters.
Occupation: Philosopher, scholar of the House of Wisdom
Place in music: Treatises on the oud and on intervals, letter notation
Life
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa into a noble family of the Kinda tribe; his father served as governor of Kufa under the Abbasid caliphs. He grew up in Basra and Baghdad, joined the circle of the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in the reign of al-Ma'mun and tutored Ahmad, the son of al-Mu'tasim. He is regarded as the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He treated music, together with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, as one of the mathematical sciences; he wrote treatises on the oud and on the arrangement of pitches, used a notation that represented tones with letters, and connected music with medicine and cosmology.[1, 2]
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