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A tourist inspects the cube carving's on the chapel's arches at Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, Scotland May 1, 2007. (David Moir/Reuters)

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[Red Badger]

"It's got a good medieval sound to it."

....but can you dance to it?..............(American Bandstand).......

[Dutchguy]

Pretty mysterious. If this was indeed an encrypted musical piece, why would the builders of the church encrypt it so?

[Maceman]

Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches.

ALL music is formed by sound waves at specific pitches. Actually, at specific frequencies, since it is our own brains that interpret these frequencies as pitch.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Pretty cool stuff.

[rod1]

It is a quite remarkable depiction of the pitch pattern in a medium. I suspect it was thought to be the only way the architechs could depict the music for posterity in the chapel. Interesting it took this many huidreds of years to realize what it was. Of course identifying it as music does not explain why it was so important for them to do that with this particular ditty.

It must have been a Rosslyn/Sinclaire or a templar theme song of the era?? or something they thought worth preserving at any rate.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks, but alas...

Music Mystery Of Da Vinci Code Chapel Cracked (Rosslyn)
The Telegraph (UK) | 5-1-2007 | Richard Alleyne
Posted on 04/30/2007 9:43:09 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826283/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[Adder]

I thought I read the tune was an early version of “Pop Goes The Weasel”...

[Lx]

I have a question. Do the notes they describe fit the normal 12 (interval) octave pattern or are they ‘microtonal’?

Is there an ‘A’ at 440 above middle ‘C’?

[ElkGroveDan]

We are spoiled these days. I was expecting a link to an mp3 file where I could hear the music. Do I actually have to wait????

[Aquinasfan]

The Mitchells have called the piece The Rosslyn Motet and added words from a contemporary hymn to complete it.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.