Renaissance Alchemist
Michael Maier's
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 musical piece composed by Maier.
This product is transcriptions for keyboard of all 50 pieces of music.
You can listen to MP3 samples of Atalanta Fugiens at:
www.amaranthpublishing.com/atalanta.htm