De Caus, Salomon
(1576–1626)
SALOMON DE CAUSDE CAUS, SALOMONSALOMON DE CAUS [* ca. 1576-† 1626] Salomon de Caus, French theorist and mathematician, devoted himself to Greek theory and described the intervals of that period and of his time in terms of their mathematical relationships. He also provided, in his Institution harmonique (1615), a thorough review of contrapuntal rules, derived from ZARLINO. De Caus may have been the first theorist to liken musical sound propagation to the concentric circles generated when an…