Mysterium Cosmographicum, for Orchestra, Narrator/Actor, and Computer Music on Tape
Description:
Mysterium Cosmographicum is a musical chronicle of an astronomy treatise by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum (Tubingen, 1596), or "Secret of the Universe," was a means by which he justified the existence of the six planets discovered during his lifetime. Kepler, through flawless a priori reasoning, goes to great lengths to explain that the reason there are six and only six planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) is because G…
more
Date:
December 1989
Creator:
Keefe, Robert Michael
Partner:
UNT Libraries