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<p><b>Franco of Cologne</b> (; also <b>Franco of Paris</b>) was a German <a href="page.php?w=music_theory">music theorist</a>, possibly a composer, one of the most influential theorists of the <a href="page.php?w=Late_Middle_Ages">Late Middle Ages</a>, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform <a href="page.php?w=musical_notation">musical notation</a> permanently: that the duration of any note should be determined by its appearance on the page, and not from context alone. The result was <b>Franconian notation</b>, described most</p><p>
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