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Music Decoded in Last Supper

Italian musician finds requiem hidden in famous fresco

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(Newser) – Touting his find as a "real da Vinci code," an Italian musician claims to have found a musical score hidden by Leonardo da Vinci in The Last Supper.  "It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala tells the Discovery Channel, describing the short piece whose notes are made up of the loaves of bread and apostles' hands visible in the 500-year-old fresco.

"There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there," Pala admits, "but it's certain that the spaces are divided harmonically." In addition to the dirge, Pala says in a new book he's uncovered a Hebrew message and the image of a chalice. Such a glut of imagery "cannot just be coincidences," Pala insists.

Italian musician and computer technician Giovanni Maria Pala talks during an interview, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. Pala, a 45-year-old musician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's
Italian musician and computer technician Giovanni Maria Pala talks during an interview, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. Pala, a 45-year-old musician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo...   (Associated Press)
A laptop screen shows musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's
A laptop screen shows musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," during an interview with Italian musician and computer technician Giovanni Maria Pala, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007....   (Associated Press)
A laptop screen shows musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's
A laptop screen shows musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," during an interview with Italian musician and computer technician Giovanni Maria Pala, right, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 22,...   (Associated Press)
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