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Hidden Music Claimed In Da Vinci Painting
snib sends us to CNN for coverage of an Italian musician and computer technician who claims to have uncovered a hidden musical score in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper." Giovanni Maria Pala published this and other findings about the 'Last Supper' painting in his book The Hidden Music, released in Italy Friday. "[This raises] 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.'"
I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find anything you want in that painting. Anyways, RMS wants this story to be called HIDDEN MUSIC CLAIMED IN GNU/LAST SUPPER.
Da Vinci accidentally misplaced his car keys in the painting too, but died before he could find it.
True story.
It can't be music.
The RIAA hasn't tried to extort money for it.
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I think that DaVinci was the kind of man to lead a secret society that hides the Holy Grail and the truth behind the sacred feminine. Anyway, I don't dismiss things like this completely out of hand as it's certainly within the realm of possibility. I read the article and they didn't provide a link to the song and I hope that they're not trying to get some kind of copyright on it as there is most certainly prior art(heh heh) here. Also a musician that truely loves his work can find music in just about anything hence songs like Flight of the Bumblebee, Blue Danube, and that one where the whole song tries to sound like a Typewriter.
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The RIAA has launched a lawsuit against the Santa Maria delle Grazie for copyright infringement...
I'm wondering how long it takes for people to find secret "music" in other paintings and photographs...
Absolutely. Da Vinci executed his paintings (actually, everything he did) with mathematical precision, and what is music but a mathematical language, Bach being the example that stands out in my mind right now? With sophisticated enough technology, we'll be finding musical notes in Jackson Pollock's paintings - scandinavian death metal, perhaps?
So Da Vinci was also a composer, yet hid it so well that only five centuries later it comes to light. He really kept that secret close to his breast! Typical MSM fodder, this bit of "news", in line with stories from a couple of years ago: "Coming up, ten ways you and your children are in danger of being killed tomorrow in a terrorist attack, but first, the Da Vinci Code - sinister cover-up or fiction?" All of it light years away from Occam's Razor.
As one of the members of The Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things said: The whole thing's rather silly, innit?
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Now I see why he hid it.
Da Vinci Easter Egg: Open a copy of any Da Vinci painting in Firefox and quickly tap Ctrl+P then enter. Before you know it, it will appear in hard copy on the nearest printer!
Known issues: Unfortunately Da Vinci, although a brilliant artist, wasn't so hot at embedded coding back in the day, and occasionally the hard copies will appear in greyscale only.
Anyway, I've used technology to determine what the lyrics to this piece of music are:- Last Supper I Gave You My Heart,
But the very next day, you betrayed me and had me crucified.
This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone who's special.
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A 40-seconds long musical score is a bit short for a "serious" piece of music. Perhaps it was an advertising jingle instead. I'm guessing the lyrics to go with the music were "Giovanni's pizza are tasty. The extra-large size is so big it's the last supper you will ever need to buy. Tell them Da Vinci sent you to qualify for the 'buy one, get one free' offer."
Mormons don't use ASCII. Or Pi for that matter. Mormons got Unicode on the continent before it was invented - they found it on buried golden plates, and they gave them back.
Last Supper I Gave You My Achy Breaky Heart
:)
But the very next day, you cheated on me and had me crucified
There, fixed that for you
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You must be a real genius if you can call an Oxford professor who's written several bestselling books a cretin. I bow to your giant intellect.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Poor Da Vinci. With modern technology, he could have hidden a whole symphony in a picture, not just a dozen simple tunes.
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I thought that Da Vinci was smart enough to embedd some DRM into his paintings.
Oh, he clearly was; you're just backwards. The Last Supper is actually the song, and the painting is the DRM. It lasted 500 years, which is pretty darn good for a DRM scheme too.
No, because Da Vinci wasn't an American artist. Unless upon hearing of the discovery of America in 1492, he sneaked out in his submarine from 1495-1498 to paint the last supper over there. Hm. The timing is actually too perfect for it not to have happened. Go get them RIAA!
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I hope that no one gets the idea to rip the music from the painting
Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo's painting in 2003, after hearing...all the media hype surrounding that damned Da Vinci Code book. Eureka! I have found (a paycheck!)
If you draw lines across the last supper, you see places where people line up. It's VERY exact. Take a ruler and pass it over you screen. There's something going on there. This is why people get hepped up about it.
Musical notes? I doubt it. A hidden message? emphatically yes. The most likely message: "DaVinci was really, really ANAL."
... you can clearly hear "I buried St. Paul"
How about they decode the music, then find that "RADIUM" warezed license for Sound Forge in there ?
Dig that painter up and watch the RIAA sue his decomposed ass.
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