Amaranth Publishing Pages

Cider Press - Early American music
and ephemera collections.

Alpha & Omega Printing & Graphics
Full service commercial printing and graphic design. We also offer complete printing services for composers and small music publishers.

The World's First
Multimedia Production?

The Music Of
Renaissance Alchemist Michael Maier

Atalanta Fugiens

Atalanta 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 World's Most Haunting Melodies
Haunting:
Continually recurring to the mind....
"haunting memories";
"the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"
Beautiful, but in a sad way
and often in a way which cannot be forgotten:
"a haunting melody"

The world's most haunting melodies,
chosen by people from all walks of life.

The Music Of The Gow Family

Fiddler Neil Gow
& His Sons

The Gow Family -
One of Scotland's most skilled and famous of fiddlers

The Music Of Sacred Geometry Guillaume Dufay & his Nuper Rosarum Flores

Llibre Vermell
and the
Legends of Montserrat

The medieval music of pilgrims to the legendary monastery of Montserrat, Spain

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.

Finally.... we have an early American tune with a history to play as we work to replace the rogues from both political parties at all levels of government and vote them out.........

The Rogue's March

The People's Conspiracy
a project of
The International War Against Stupidity

Traditional Masonic Music
A collection of MP3 arrangements of traditional music related to Masons.

Music For Saint Arnold
Patron Saint of Brewers

The Celtic Beethoven

Most people, musicians included, when asked what type of music did Beethoven write more of than any other?.... Most people would not say folk song arrangements....... But, he actually set more than 150 folk songs to music, many of those songs of Celtic origin.

The Celtic Beethoven

Hannah's Song
The art & music of Hannah Cohoon

Hannah Cohoon is the most famous of the many artists from the mystical Shaker communities in 19th Century America. What is not widely known is that she also composed interesing songs .
Hannah's Song

Sonatas Of Padre Antonio Soler

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) was a Spanish composer who composed many harpsichord sonatas that were often influenced by the traditional music of Spain. One can clearly hear in his works many influences of the guitar music so common in Spain. Even the early influences of what later came to be known as flamenco are evident in his keyboard works.
This makes many of these works perfect candidates for transcriptions for solo guitar. Not only is the original music incredibly skilled in and of itself, it can be adapted to the guitar with interesting effect.

Guitar transcriptions of the
sonatas of Soler

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.

The Music
Of The Wind
Music created using instruments such as
aeolian wind harps, Chinese "weeping bamboo" flute arrays, and more.

The Music Of The Wind

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.

You can also listen to the MP3 files of "Sadie's Symphony", a memorial for our beloved Sadie, who passed away recently.

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.

No kidding, this page has music composed for the infamous Illuminati conspiracy,
by one of the original members of that famous organization, including The Illuminati Anthem.

In A Sacred Manner I Live
Native American Songs & Chants

The Oldest Christian Hymn?
Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continuously excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander and the Gospel of Thomas (an important early Christian document), and the oldest known music notation and lyrics of a Christian hymn

A Gaelic Blessing
Gaelic Blessing
This is something the world
could use a whole lot more of...

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.

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.

Arca Musurgica

The Arca Musurgica, described in 1650 in the innovative music publication Musurgia Universalis by Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher, is a device by which both musicians and non-musicians can compose multi-part music.

Calling The Muse

In the 2nd century, a lyric poet Mesomedes composed the most complete existing examples of ancient Greek music.

Hanacpachap Cussicuinin

Click here to go to our MIDI file and page about what may be the first polyphonic piece of music composed and published in the "new world".

The World's Most Mysterious Book
The Voynich Manuscript

The Early American X-Files

Asia through the eyes of an
American jazz musician

Click here to go to the web page of jazz musician, writer and photographer Bob Mocarsky, You can download chapters of his book, a work in progress of photographs and writings that describe his experiences living in Asia. You can also now order a copy of Bob's new CD.

"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."

Bamboo, and the art of making bamboo flutes....

Xtoles
Xtoles is the name of an ancient Mayan song, chanted in praise of the Mayan sun God.
You can follow this link and listen to two MIDI arrangements of Xtoles.

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.

Henry David Thoreau's
Favorite Song
"In warm evenings I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seem to have charmed, hovering around me..." - Henry David Thoreau

“I have deposited in the county of Bedford, about
four miles from Buford's, in an excavation or vault,
six feet below the surface of the ground, the
following articles: ... The deposit consists of two
thousand nine hundred and twenty one pounds of
gold and five thousand one hundred pounds of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in exchange for silver to save transportation ... The above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others ...”

The Beale Treasure
If you can solve this cipher code,
you could become very wealthy!..............

Music Of
The Early Printers

Many of the early Renaissance printers were also musicians, composers and arrangers and were the pioneers in making music widely available to the public.

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.