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The World's First
Multimedia Production?The Music Of
Renaissance Alchemist Michael MaierAtalanta FugiensAtalanta Fugiens may well be one of the first multimedia productions ever created. The work was created in 1617, by Renaissance alchemist Michael Maier.The complete title is Atalanta fugiens, hoc est, emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica. The publication is a complex early example of multimedia art made up of 50 sections. Each section contains an engraved emblem and has a verse and an epigram associated with the emblem, and a short prose discourse which elaborates an alchemical interpretation of the symbolism in the emblem. Each of the 50 sections also includes a short and unique musical canon composed by Maier.
You can go to our Atalanta Fugiens page to learn more about this publication and about alchemist Michael Maier and to listen to MP3 samples of the music from Atalanta Fugiens.
The Music Of The Spheres
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) published his work Harmonices Mundi, in 1619. This work, in which he attempted to explain the harmony of the world, was a series of five books and contained what is known today as his third law. The work was founded on geometry, from which Kepler derived first a theory of musical harmony and then a cosmology of the heavens and the earth. Kepler was attempting to find common rules between music and movement in the solar system. His music of the spheres is based on the relative maximum and minimum angular velocities of the planet measured from the sun. Using his theories, Kepler allotted to the planets musical intervals and musical motion.You can go to our Music Of The Spheres page and listen to MP3 representations of Kepler's theories and order an MP3 collection of various planetary audio combinations.
The Music Of Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, (January 13, 1866? – October 29, 1949), was a mystic, teacher of sacred dances, and a spiritual teacher. As a young man he traveled for many years in India, Perse, Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet, with a group of people known as the "Truth Seekers", made up of archeologists, interpreters, doctors, engineers and more.
As a result of these travels, he had access to schools, monasteries and brotherhoods which had preserved various types of spiritual teachings.
During his travels, he learned the music of various folk, classical and spiritual traditions.
The Language Of The Birds
The Language Of The Birds MP3 collection consists of field recordings of natural audio events adapted using 4 specially designed software programs and transcribed for musical performance.
These transcriptions include various bird songs (accurately slowed down and lowered in pitch), a lone wolf howling, the incredible rhythms of a beehive, a flock of Canadian Geese landing on a lake and more. The collection includes 17 transcriptions, performed by various solo instruments and combinations of instruments.
Music From The Notebooks Of Beethoven
Throughout his life Beethoven used many notebooks and sketchbooks to write down musical thoughts for pieces he was working on and for ideas that inspired him. Many of these works, ideas and fragments of music were either never completed or never published.
We have created and are now offering for download a collection of choral arrangements using some of the more interesting pieces we discovered in these treasure troves of the musical thoughts and ideas of Beethoven.
We don't have many examples of the music of the races called "faeries" (sidhe) described in tales across the world, but there are a few. In many 17th through 19th century publications, there are a few notated examples of this music that the writers and music collectors claim originated with the fairies. We have collected those that we could find, and recreated these melodies. Go to the Music of the Faeries page and listen to some MP3 performances of some of this music.
The Music Of Sacred Geometry
Some of the earliest chants of theChristian church were composed using much the same sacred geometry as the beautiful cathedrals of the world. These chants were created in such a way that as we experimented with them, we found that when combined as multi-part, they create a beautiful harmony. The chants seem to work together as parts of a larger whole so to speak. We have transcribed many of the these chants from very early monastic scores, and worked with them to create unique multi-part choral music, from two parts to five parts.
Baseball in Song and Music
"Build it, and they will come"Once again, we have to wait for that wonderful time of the year - baseball season! Meanwhile, you can go to our page "Baseball in Song and Music" and listen to MIDI arrangements of songs and music related to baseball. You can also order a CD that contains scans of 19th and 20th Century sheet music related to baseball.
The Hutchinson Family Singers
America's first
protest singers
Requiem For Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs was one of that influential group of singer-songwriters in the 1960s who helped inspire social changes on many levels in America. He had an uncanny ability to create haunting melodies for his songs and we have created a choral requiem using some of these melodies. Sadly, Phil Ochs committed suicide in the 1970s.
The Song Of Seikilos
The World's Oldest Love Song?In ancient Greece a man named Seikilos inscribed a funeral pillar with an epitaph, poem and song for his deceased wife.
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The Music And Art Of William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), was a man of many talents. As well as being a fine artist, he was also a musician, composer and collector of the folk music of early America. And if that is not enough to impress......, he also invented a type of steamboat paddle wheel, a unique two-hulled sailboat, a traveling painting studio on wheels and a hollow back violin, named the "Cradle of Harmony".
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The Oldest Christian Hymn? |
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Musikalisches Würfelspiel
(Musical Dice Game)An interesting musical game, Musikalisches Würfelspiel (musical dice game) has often been attributed to Mozart. On this page you can download a free Windows program you can use to create hundreds of Minuets in the style of Mozart!An Unknown Mozart Improvisation?For the Mozart fans and music history fans out there, here is an interesting piece of music that we recently discovered that was published in Baltimore in 1874. The editor of this piece claims that this music was improvised by Mozart, and later written down by one of the listeners. An interesting story to say the least.
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In 1972, after 15 years of research Prof. Anne Kilmer (professor of Assyriology, University of California, and a curator at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley) transcribed one of the oldest known pieces of music notation in the world. Click here to go to our page about this unique song and to hear MIDI arrangements of various transcriptions of this song.
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Arca
Musurgica
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The medieval music
of pilgrims to the legendary
monastery of Montserrat, Spain
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Hanacpachap
Cussicuinin
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Geronimo's
Medicine Song |
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"Gu Yuan” [Ancient Lament]
White Rock Taoist’s Song"....being one of the oldest tablatures extant, not only for the guqin, but for any stringed instrument anywhere."
Song For Guan Yin
Guan Yin is one of the most beloved deities and Asian peoples have been worshipping her as the Goddess of mercy and compassion for many centuries.
Guān Yīn (literal meaning: "Observes the sounds (of the world)"), also written Kuan Yin or Kwan-yin, is the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists. Guan Yin is also reverenced by Chinese Taoists as an Immortal.
Chinese folks songs transcribed
for solo instrument such as flute, or violin
 A transcription of a recording of a solitary Taoist monk playing a flute overlooking a mountain canyon in China. |
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3 transcriptions of a recording
of a Zen monk |
Meet
the CEO of Amaranth Publishing and The Creator!
And learn who you should contact if you know of a
Golden Retriever that needs to be rescued or needs assistance.
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Will
Kemp's Jig How many people have danced 80 miles in 9 days? Well, Will Kemp did; and you can read his story and listen to a MIDI arrangement of Will Kemp's jig. |
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The Beale Treasure |
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"On
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Music For The Dogs
Musicians and composers, from bluegrass to Chopin to modern composers like Erik Satie, have created music inspired by dogs. This page is a selection of MIDI files of some of this music.
(The following links go to pages on other websites)
This link goes the the web site of a Fort Worth based computer sales and service company, whose help, expertise and assistance over the years has helped in large part to make this web site possible. As well as computer sales and service, Green & Associates is also a state of the art graphic design company for all forms of printing, and a web site design company.
Tramp Printers
The link above goes to a web site about a book that details the history of "tramp printers" in America. Anyone interested in the history of publishing and printing in America, and the world for that matter, might be interested in checking out this book.A Brief History of the Scriptoria
Chronological Timetable of Book History
Invention of Paper
Interesting Stories From Printing's Past
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Printing Museum
Type Lore
Catholic Encyclopedia: SCRIPTORIUM
Forty Centuries of Ink
History of Printing
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps..
Matteo Ricci: The Art of Printing
Medieval & Renaissance Book Production
Missionaries and mandarins
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
The World of the Renaissance Print Shop
The Technology and Culture of the Manuscript Book
The Infancy of Printing
Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method
Movable Type Printing of Ancient China
Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing
Japanese Woodblock Printing
Renaissance Printing and Thinking
Printing in the Renaissance and Reformation
The Gutenberg Bible online digital facsimile
Octavo Marginalia: Woodcuts
Some Famous Printers
William Caxton (1422-1491)
Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468)
Aldus Manutius (1450-1515)
The World of Benjamin Franklin
More interesting Links
PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL SITE - Public Domain Electronic Texts
PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - INDEX
Line Art From Rare Manuscripts
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
HIEROGLYPHS
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In
the words of Geronimo -
In
19th Century America, guitarists, banjo players,
composers and publishers were all very busy
producing guitar and banjo sheet music of all kinds. From classical
compositions, to jigs, reels, songs, arrangements
and even transcriptions from operas for solo
guitar, we are now making much of this 
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Coming.......... 
