A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Nodus Salomonis
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NODUS SALOMONIS (Solomon's knot). A celebrated Canon, composed by Pietro Valentini, and described by Fr. Kircher, in his Musurgia. It was originally intended to be sung by ninety-six Voices, disposed in twenty-four Choirs: but Kircher afterward ascertained, that, provided the distribution into four-part Choirs was properly carried out, the number of Voices might be increased to five hundred and twelve, or even to twelve millions two hundred thousand. The Guida—in which four notes only are used—stands as follows:—
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