Cat concert; Avricvlis Midae Non MVSICA Gratior VLLA EST; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. In the middle is a Clavichord in which cats and dogs are locked up. The instrument is "played" by strumming on their legs and pulling their tails. The jester next to the fantasy instrument is still voting. The singer keeps his music sheet upside down, so that the readers can see that a four-bell song is sung. In contrast to the musician company that the Bry showed earlier in his series () this is not about the exalted harmony, but about The wanking in music. With this form of "tone art", the disharmonic,


Cat concert; Avricvlis Midae Non MVSICA Gratior VLLA EST; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. In the middle is a Clavichord in which cats and dogs are locked up. The instrument is "played" by strumming on their legs and pulling their tails. The jester next to the fantasy instrument is still voting. The singer keeps his music sheet upside down, so that the readers can see that a four-bell song is sung. In contrast to the musician company that the Bry showed earlier in his series () this is not about the exalted harmony, but about The wanking in music. With this form of "tone art", the disharmonic, "diabolical" sounds were intended that were produced by traveling musicians, who were poorly written as a drinking and pottering people.


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