Rosslyn Chapel, a 15th Century Scottish church, was made popular with the wildly famous book The DaVinci Code. Today, another fascinating announcement was made that involved this same church.
For 27 years, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, along with his composer and pianist son, cracked a code left behind almost 600 years ago.
Along the top of the chapel are 13 intricately carved angel musicians. There are also 213 carved cubes depicting geometric-type patters that the team found to be an ancient musical system callede cymatics - or Chladni patterns. The patterns are formed by sound waves at specific pitches.
The father/son team matched each of the patterns on the cubes to the Chladni pitch and were able to unlock this "frozen music".
Apparently a concert will be held on May 18th where musicians, playing medieval instruments, will perform this ancient tune.
What significance does this music hold? Perhaps there are therapeutic properties within these sacred notes. I believe that they have only begun unlocking it's true meaning.
My good friend and composer, Shawana, is feeding me all sorts of incredible information on the power of music for therapy...right down to individual notes. Yesterday she informed me that the "C" note has a power to calm. (Shawana is composing music for a guided imagery CD we will be taping this summer)
I am thankful for Thomas and Stuart Mitchell who made this discovery. One can't help but wonder how many other maps to the past have been left behind and yet to be discovered.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
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