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Ars Musicae

The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

By Iulia Millesima

One day Stradivari offered a glass of wine to a lumberjack, the price for a secret coded in the Roman calendar. A night when the Moon is unusually not involved. [Read more…] about The Secret Night Chant of a Stradivarius Tree

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Almanac, Archeoastronomy, Ars Musicae, Sound, Stradivari Antonio

The Pythagorean Acoustic: Geometry & Music of Sirens

By Iulia Millesima

The music of Sirens, the harmony of spheres, Plato’s dodecahedron and not only. The important role accorded to sacred geometric music in the Pythagorean school. [Read more…] about The Pythagorean Acoustic: Geometry & Music of Sirens

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Pythagorean Acoustics, Pythagorean Tetraktys, Reghini Arturo, Sound

The Pythagorean Acoustics Based on Tetraktys

By Iulia Millesima

Prime numbers and the law of Tetraktys. The first were Pythagoras limit, the second an enigma that continues today. The basis of Pythagoras school musical theory. [Read more…] about The Pythagorean Acoustics Based on Tetraktys

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Pythagorean Acoustics, Pythagorean Tetraktys, Reghini Arturo, Sound

Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 2

By Iulia Millesima

Density as a wave. The conclusive part of Atorène music course will make us grab that Canseliet omitted many details in his letters on the Last Cooking. [Read more…] about Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 2

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Atorène, Egg-Vessel, Sound

Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 1

By Iulia Millesima

Alchemy involves Music, or at least a weird succession of sounds. Maybe more of all this. Atorène provides a course on musical, or ponderal, proportions. [Read more…] about Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 1

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Acoustic-Musicology Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Atorène, Egg-Vessel, Sound

Brouaut’s Frontispiece, the Organ Pythagorean Proportions

By Iulia Millesima

Not only a diagram of the Great Opera, but almost a compendium of the last cooking. The table by J. De Semlecque  on Brouaut’s was long a musical conundrum. [Read more…] about Brouaut’s Frontispiece, the Organ Pythagorean Proportions

Filed Under: Alchemic Pictures Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Atorène, Brouaut Jean, de Semlecque Jacques, Egg-Vessel, Sound

Hieronymus Bosch and the Concert in the Egg

By Iulia Millesima

No metaphoric at all, this Hieronymus Bosch painting is as realistic as it could be: there is a real concert inside the philosophical Egg. [Read more…] about Hieronymus Bosch and the Concert in the Egg

Filed Under: Alchemy & Art Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Bosch Hieronymus, Egg-Vessel, Sound

Canseliet, the Art of Music & Weight

By Iulia Millesima

The Philosophical Egg as a musical instrument? Here Canseliet dares to describe an unbelievable scale of whistling notes coming from its Crystal Dome. [Read more…] about Canseliet, the Art of Music & Weight

Filed Under: Alchemic Authors 1833-X Tagged With: Ars Musicae, Canseliet Eugène, Egg-Vessel, Sound

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