Musical Score found in Da Vinci's Last Supper

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Nov. 9, 2007 --

A real da Vinci code is indeed hidden within Leonardo's "The Last Supper," according to a book to be published in Italy next week.

But rather than conspiracy theories, the new code points to a hidden musical score, a sacred text and a three-dimensional chalice.

"This is not another spin-off of Dan Brown's novel. It's real," musician Giovanni Maria Pala told Discovery News in an exclusive interview. "I've always been intrigued by the possibility of finding a (piece of) music in the Last Supper, but I would have never imagined to find myself decoding a secret message by Leonardo."

Indeed, Leonardo was an accomplished lyre player who also enjoyed hiding puzzles in his work.

Pala, who will publish his findings next week in the book "La Musica Celata" (which translates to "The Hidden Music") claims to have discovered nothing less than a sacred hymn and text, along with mystic symbols in da Vinci's degraded masterpiece.



Full story here http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/09/last-supper-da-vinci.html

I'm sure you could find "hidden musical scores" and "hidden cuneiform messages" in a lot of paintings if you looked hard enough.

Whether Da Vinci meant to input hidden symbols or not, it's a great example of artists inspiring one another. Music inspired by a painting? I'd love to hear it, actually.

That's just dumb. Can people work on something useful like curing cancer?

Yeah. Then if I get cancer, he can cure it, and if he is suffering, I can write music to alleviate it.

It seems pretty clever. Can someone perform this and upload for us, so that we can listen?

The base note doesn't change at all.