"The chromatic polyphonies that you hear	CARMINA CHROMATICO,	" Les polyphonies chromatiques que vous entendez
are those of the mysteries of our Salvation	QUÆ AUDIS MODULATA TENORE,	sont celles des mystères de notre Salut
predicted a long time ago by all the Sibyls	HÆC SUNT ILLA, QUIBUS NOSTRA	que les Sibylles en transe
into a prophetic trance."	OLIM ARCANA SALUTIS	prédirent en choeur il y a longtemps."
	BIS SENÆ IN TREPIDO,
	CECINERUNT ORE SIBYLLE.

Prophetiae Sibyllarum, prologue.

The medievaly colored polyphonic MIDI music(*) you should actually hear is a prelude to
the animation of the geomantic astrolab that will automatically load in a few moments...

 

This working electronic replica of the geomantic astrolab was first planned in the "Dodechedron Project"
to be a functional simulation of the Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device from the
British Museum (Department of Oriental Antiquities, Inv. N° 1888.5-26.1).

(*) MIDI MUSIC SOURCES & CREDITS :

All the "MIDI MUSIC" arrangements(2) used for this animation are an adaptation of the Orlando di Lasso
– Carmina Chromatica and other PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM motets (XVIe.).

The MIDI files were generated from a public domain "tablatures Zarlino" transposition of the "PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM" music sheet, thanks to the excellent "ZARLINO TRANSPOSER" _a French freeware !_, that you may hear thanks to the "INTERNET AMP MIDI PLAYER" ("InternetAmp 2.0", DHTML script) _ actually playing from the icon you may see below on this page_.

You may listen to a full Lyric version of the prologue performed by the Hilliard Ensemble from their official page at NEWWORLDCLASSICS.COM