Amici Arcae Musarithmicae: Italy 1700

Saturday 25 April 2015

Italy 1700

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The Arca Musarithmica was invented by the 17th century polymath, Father Athanasius Kircher SJ.

It is a system by which a non-musician could compose a piece of four-part music using prearranged musical fragments inscribed in wands arranged in columns inside a wooden cabinet. Each type of wand corresponded to a particular metrical unit e.g. 4, 5, or 6 syllables, and on each wand there were examples of florid counterpoint on one side and more simple note-against-note settings on the other. Once the phrase to be set had been analyzed into its fundamental syllabic units, each of these could be set to an example taken from a wand of the appropriate type.

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Saturday 25 April 2015

Italy 1700

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