Alexander John Ellis
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Alexander John Ellis (or Alexander Sharpe) (14 June, 1814 - 28 October, 1890) was an English philologist and music theorist. He is noted for translating and extensively annotating Hermann Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone, in which he among other things introduces the notation of cents for musical intervals.
Reference
- M. K. C. MacMahon, ‘Ellis , Alexander John (1814–1890)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed 14 June 2006]
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