Prime numbers and the law of Tetraktys. The first was Pythagoras’ limit, and the second was 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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Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 2
Density as a wave. The conclusive part of the Atorène music course will make us grab that Canseliet omitted many details in his letters on the Last Cooking.
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Atorène’s course starts with the presentation of the Philosophical Week, which is the musical interval of the Last Cooking, then continues with the musical notation and Law of Attraction. Before getting to the Egg’s Densities Variations, and Degrees of Fire, the Canseliet’s apprentice provides the reader unfamiliar with the mathematical laws of the proportions of the sound with the construction of notes, intervals, and scales, and Pythagoras, as well as Zarlino’s, range.
[Read more…] about Atorène, Music Theory Course for Alchemists. Part 1Brouaut’s Frontispiece, the Organ Pythagorean Proportions
Not only a diagram of the Great Opera but almost a compendium of the last cooking. And not only. The table by J. De Semlecque on Brouaut’s was long a musical conundrum. There are three authors to consult: Canseliet, Atorène, and Martianus Capella.
[Read more…] about Brouaut’s Frontispiece, the Organ Pythagorean ProportionsHieronymus Bosch and the Concert in the Egg
No metaphoric at all, this Hieronymus Bosch painting is as realistic as it could be: there is a real concert inside the philosophical Egg.
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