Atalanta Jugiens is a book written by Michael Maier and published in 1617. Maier was the court physician to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague (1552-1612) from 1608 to 1611, to then develop intensive activity in England until 1616. Atalanta Ju/giens, an alchemical emblem book, contains 50 engravings, being that Maier appended a fugue on three voices to each of them. Although many scholars analyzed the musical structure of the fugues and attempted at interpreting it within an alchemical context, not much is known about how and why Maier chose and composed fugues for this work only. Physicians and alchemists were not necessarily musically educated, and the process of envisioning and accomplishing such a work is certainly more complex than what a musical-alchemical investigation can reveal. Therefore, I sought to identify the musical tradition to which Maier had resort, as well as the elements that might have contributed to the creation of Atalanta Jugiens.
...MoreBook Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano (2015) Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Science.
Similar Citations
Article
Lenke, Nils;
Roudet, Nicolas;
Tilton, Hereward;
(2014)
Michael Maier---Nine Newly Discovered Letters
(/isis/citation/CBB001320977/)
Article
Sarah Lang;
(2022)
A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen
(/isis/citation/CBB423338829/)
Book
Maier, Michael;
Hofmeier, Thomas;
(2007)
Michael Maiers Chymisches Cabinet: Atalanta fugiens deutsch nach der Ausgabe von 1708
(/isis/citation/CBB001220240/)
Book
Maïer, Michaël;
(2005)
Les arcanes très secrets
(/isis/citation/CBB000773087/)
Book
Tilton, Hereward;
(2003)
Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622)
(/isis/citation/CBB000471032/)
Chapter
Purš, Ivo;
Hausenblasová, Jaroslava;
(2011)
Michael Maier a jeho pŭsobení v Praze
(/isis/citation/CBB001201941/)
Book
Perrot, Etienne;
(1981)
Les trois pommes d'or: Commentaire sur L'Atalante fugitive de Michael Maier
(/isis/citation/CBB000017534/)
Article
Faivre, Antoine;
(1973 (pub. 1975))
Mystische Alchemie und geistige Hermeneutik
(/isis/citation/CBB000023985/)
Book
Fréon, Bernard;
(1991)
L'art secret d'alchimie par Mère Nature: La voie alchimique du corps de gloire. Commentaire selon l'alchimie interne des 50 figures emblématiques de l'Atalante fugitive de Michel Maïer
(/isis/citation/CBB000036471/)
Book
Sebastián, Santiago;
(1989)
Alquimia y emblemática: La fuga de Atalanta de Michael Maier. Traducción de los epigramas, Pedraza, Pilar. Estudio musical, José Ma. Sáenz Almeida. Prólogo John Moffitt
(/isis/citation/CBB000044463/)
Article
Streich, Hildemarie;
(1973 (pub. 1975))
Musikalische und psychologische Entsprechungen in der Atalanta fugiens von Michael Maier
(/isis/citation/CBB000023993/)
Article
Streich, Hildemarie;
(1977)
Musikalische Symbolik in der Atalanta fugiens von Michael Maier (1618)
(/isis/citation/CBB000027903/)
Article
Robotier, Jacques;
(1987)
La musìque cachée de l'Atalanta fugiens: Problèmes de transcription musicale
(/isis/citation/CBB000044464/)
Article
Allen, Sally G.;
Hubbs, Joanna;
(1980)
Outrunning Atalanta: Feminine destiny in alchemical transmutation
(/isis/citation/CBB000020461/)
Chapter
Mödersheim, Sabine;
(1996)
Mater et Matrix: Michael Maiers alchimistische Sinnbilder der Mutter
(/isis/citation/CBB000075795/)
Thesis
Zhuqing Hu;
(2019)
From Ut Re Mi to Fourteen-Tone Temperament: The Global Acoustemologies of an Early Modern Chinese Tuning Reform
(/isis/citation/CBB144734757/)
Essay Review
Ferdinando Abbri;
(2014)
L'opera in musica incontra la storia della scienza: Galileo Galilei, Kepler e Philip Glass
(/isis/citation/CBB375518644/)
Article
Maurice A. Finocchiaro;
(2020)
Vincenzo Galilei’s Musicology and Galileo’s Science: Methodological Comparison and Contrast
(/isis/citation/CBB582052194/)
Article
Ronald Broude;
(2021)
Ballard, Lully, and the Books that Helped Change How We Think about Music
(/isis/citation/CBB452291576/)
Thesis
Sean Thomas O'Neil;
(2019)
The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1800
(/isis/citation/CBB896696901/)
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Symbolon: Jahrbuch für Symbolforschung
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Be the first to comment!