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    Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni ("The Universal Musical Art, of the Great Art of Consonance and Dissonance") is a 1650 work by...
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    and is on display at the Green Library at Stanford University. The Musurgia Universalis (1650) sets out Kircher's views on music: he believed that the harmony...
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    According to Musurgia Universalis (1650), the hen makes "to to too", while chicks make "glo glo glo"....
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    the calls of several birds in musical notation in his encyclopedic Musurgia Universalis. Heinrich Biber's c. 1669 Sonata Representiva is composed in sections...
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    were widely disseminated in Athanasius Kircher's handbook on music, Musurgia Universalis. In what is the first documented description of how a mechanical...
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    mechanical arts in the 17th century. In a widely known handbook on music, Musurgia Universalis (1650), the scholar Athanasius Kircher describes a mechanical organ...
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  • Athanasius Kircher describes the stylus fantasticus in his book, Musurgia Universalis: "The fantastic style is especially suited to instruments. It is...
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    instrument was first described by Athanasius Kircher in his 1650 work Musurgia Universalis, though the lack of an image may have left doubt in the minds of...
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    https://wmich.edu/mus-theo/ciphers/wilkins.html Kircher, Athanasius. 1650. Musurgia Universalis. Schott, Kaspar. 1655. Schola Steganographica. Thicknesse, Philip...
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  • Parrot in Musurgia Universalis (1650) saying Χαῖρε ("hello" in Ancient Greek)...
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    with the construction of the Musarithmic Ark. — Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis (1650), Book VIII, page 185 The arca is a box containing a set of...
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    Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.‎ Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis, Rome 1650, p. 476 North, Nigel (1987). Continuo playing on the lute...
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  • Intervals: Group Theory for Composition and Analysis. Berkeley, CA: Musurgia Universalis Press. ISBN 978-1430308355. Butterfield, Sean (2023). Integrated...
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    was first described by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) in his books Musurgia Universalis (1650) and Phonurgia Nova (1673). It became popular as a household...
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    the Palazzo del Quirinale has survived. Kircher's illustration in Musurgia universalis (1650), long thought to be a fanciful representation of a hypothetical...
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  • Journal of Formal Logic (6): 319–322. Kircher, Athanasius (1650). Musurgia Universalis. Rome: Corbelletti. Prestet, Jean (1675). Elemens des Mathematiques...
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  • Strasbourg. ISBN 978-2-86820-107-2. Kircher, Athanasius (1650), Musurgia Universalis Sive Ars Magna Consoni Et Dissoni, Rome: Corbelletti. Vol. 1 Vol...
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    Kircher has given one specimen of this class of his works in his Musurgia Universalis. Most of Allegri's published music, especially the instrumental music...
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  • notation to depict bird sound began with Athanasius Kircher in his Musurgia universalis (1650) but more careful use was attempted with enhancements in the...
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    probably owing to the back being much vaulted. Athanasius Kircher (Musurgia universalis, 486) applied the name of chelys to a kind of viol with eight strings...
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  • Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (alternative) from Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni - Tome 1 Archived 9 February 2008...
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    century. Earlier works on the subject, such as Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia Universalis of 1650 and even early eighteenth-century books such as Michael Ernst...
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    used in combination. In 1661, 11 years after the publication of Musurgia Universalis, which contains a description of a similar, but more limited device...
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  • Heinichen credited Athanasius Kircher as a predecessor, specifically his Musurgia universalis (1650). "Naxos Classical Music". George J. Buelow – A History of...
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    in A for keyboard instrument – published in Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia universalis (Rome, 1650) Delectus sacrarum cantionum (Munich, 1669), 26 motets...
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    Intervals: Group Theory for Composition and Analysis. Berkeley, CA: Musurgia Universalis Press. ISBN 978-1430308355. Baez, John (June 12, 2006). "This Week's...
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  • Rodomonte (1633). He also worked with Athanasius Kircher on the Musurgia Universalis. In addition, he produced three operas: Dal male il bene (Rome, 1654;...
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    come to mass.: 67 : 107  As evidence he referred to his own work Musurgia Universalis, published in 1650. The work is divided in two books. The first,...
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    Orpharion An orpharion, labeled cythara communis, from Kircher's Musurgia Universalis Classification String instrument (plucked) Hornbostel–Sachs classification...
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    aeterna Dei sapientia" - Harmonie als Utopie: Untersuchungen zur Musurgia universalis von Athanasius Kircher ["It plays out in a world of eternal wisdom"...
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