Hidden Music in da Vinci’s The Last Supper
Image: Giovanni Maria Pala
Musician Giovanni Maria Pala claimed to have discovered a hidden musical score for a solemn hymn in da Vinci’s masterpiece "The Last Supper." And what’s more, the musical notes themselves encode for a Hebrew text, and even a image of the chalice!
The Apostles, represented in groups of three, gave him a hint that the piece should be played in 3/4-time, like much 15th-century music. But it was their hands, always in relation to the breads on the table, that provided the real score — to be read from right to left, in line with Leonardo’s writing.
"I marked the pieces of bread on the table and the Apostle’s hands as music notes. Then I drew a pentagram over the scene between the tablecloth and Jesus’ face. I couldn’t believe my ears when I played the music. It sounded really solemn, almost like a requiem," Pala said.
But there was much more. Pala noticed that the notes, in their position, produced strange symbols — similar to ancient cuneiform script — when united to each other by lines.
Examined by Father Luigi Orlando, a biblical scholar at the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome, the cuneiform writing turned out to be a sentence written in ancient Hebrew: "bo nezer usbi," which means "with Him consecration and glory."
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November 11, 2007 at 2:31 pm by Alex
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