Posted on 11/09/2007 8:47:01 PM PST by RDTF
ROME, Italy (AP) -- It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.
"It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus."
Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" vividly depicts a key moment in the Gospel narrative: Jesus' last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, and the shock of Christ's followers as they learn that one of them is about to betray him.
Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo's painting in 2003, after hearing on a news program that researchers believed the artist and inventor had hidden a musical composition in the work.
"Afterward, I didn't hear anything more about it," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "As a musician, I wanted to dig deeper."
In a book released Friday in Italy, Pala explains how he took elements of the painting that have symbolic value in Christian theology and interpreted them as musical clues.
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In his book -- "La Musica Celata" ("The Hidden Music") --Pala also describes how he found what he says are other clues in the painting that reveal the slow rhythm of the composition and the duration of each note.
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(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I could swear that's the shape of a rabbit by St. Peter.
LOL. Maybe that disembodied hand holding the knife is really a musical note.
Translation: Got stoned one night and some weird tune that was composed the mark the death of Stanislav Whoreazelski and broadcast on Polish Educational TV, then re-run at 3:00 AM on Eurovision right after Boccie Ball for Lira kept running through his head in flashbacks.
What happens if you play the painting backwards?
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This is crap, you can always find a transformation that convert any sequence into music.
The January Man
Starring Kevin Kline
Directed by Pat O'Connor
12 apostles = 12 notes (chromatic scale) would be a better way of looking for a score. The order of the apostles is given but what note and note value they represent could be clues hidden in the painting. Hey, maybe I should write a book!
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