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adammclean Member 
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The Mellon catalogue records the survival of a piece of alchemical music - the Antiphona by Johannes de Teschen. This is in MS Mellon 5 created round about 1400, in four pages, folios 2r - 3v. Its apparently a through-composed, monodic song in the Phrygian mode without formal structure, written in Hufnagelschrift (horseshoe neumes) on red, five-line staves, F and C indicated on the second and fourth lines from the bottom of each staff, respectively, the text written in a single broad line below the staff. Seven staves and seven text lines to each page. The music is independent of liturgical sources. I have put up a page on the alchemy web site. http://www.alchemywebsite.com/alchemical_music.html Here is the opening folio. Attached Image (viewed 1910 times): |
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Paul Ferguson Member 
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Here is my post from 12 November 2008 containing a few snippets about De Teschen: Regarding Johannes de Teschen/Johannes Tecenensis/Johann von Teschen: 1. He is listed in Adam's database under Johannes Tecenensis. 2. MS Ashburnham 1166 (c. 1475) contains his 'Miscellanea alchemica'. 3. The Newberry Consort include some of his music in their programs: See: http://www.houstonearlymusic.org/hemarchive/archive/1997/newber1.htm |
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Paul Ferguson Member
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A paper by Peter Forshaw which refers to this manuscript in the context of Khunrath's life and work is available for legal download here: http://uva.academia.edu/PeterForshaw/Papers/803070/Oratorium-Auditorium-Laboratorium_Early_Modern_Improvisations_on_Cabala_Music_and_Alchemy |
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Paul Ferguson Member
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This work is also mentioned in Christoph Meinel's essay on alchemy and music (German text) available as a free .pdf download here: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/13331/ |
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adammclean Member
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Paul has very kindly transcribed and translated the latin of the Antiphona and I have now updated my web page with this. http://www.alchemywebsite.com/alchemical_music.html |
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