TeledyN: The Rosslyn Motet

The Rosslyn Motet

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

That it opens with the long-banned jazz-staple and psycho-acoustically magical augmented fourth is bad juju enough, but the story goes that the Knights Templar actually had the wits about them to construct a treasure-hiding temple with a tuned key-stone set to shimmy into place upon the next performance of this piece within the chamber hall.

Chladni patterns form when a sustained note is used to vibrate a sheet of metal covered in powder producing marks. The frequency used dictates the shape of the pattern ... Different notes can produce various shapes including flowers, diamonds and hexagons - shapes all present on the Rosslyn cubes. Stuart Mitchell believes this is "beyond coincidence"
[ Scotsman.com: Tune into the Da Vinci Coda ]

Should you want to try it out on your own local architecture, you can click here for an MP3

Submitted by mrG on Tue, 2006-05-02 14:35.

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Agreed! Very far-fetched.

Submitted by a stranger on Tue, 2007-05-01 10:35.

Agreed! Very far-fetched. Why did the ancient people hide this "music"?

One year later, the Rosslyn

Submitted by mrG on Wed, 2007-05-02 13:47.

One year later, the Rosslyn Motet is set for an original-instruments premiere among the symbologists playground of the Rosslyn Chapel:

The Mitchells have called the piece The Rosslyn Motet and added words from a contemporary hymn to complete it.

They have also scheduled a world premiere at a concert in the chapel on May 18, when four singers will be accompanied by eight musicians playing the piece on mediaeval instruments.

Simon Beattie of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust said he was delighted to have the mystery finally solved, and was intrigued by the music itself.

"It's not something you would want to put on in the car and listen to, but it's certainly an interesting piece of music," he said. "It's got a good mediaeval sound to it."
[ Musicians unlock mystery melody in Scottish chapel ]

Oh yeah? Well I put it on my mp3 gadget and play it full blast in the car; we all rock back and forth like it was High HipHop, and stare mysteriously at the other drivers at the stop light. But it hasn't lowered the price of gas or anything.

Would be tragic, though, if after all this press they finally play the tune in the chapel, the band gets to the finale, the stones rumble, a thick oak door swings open, a platform slides out with an ancient baphomet-graced puzzlebox, and inside ... they find the preserved head of a narwhal!

The Rosslyn Motet Revisited:

Submitted by mrG on Tue, 2007-10-16 10:16.

The Rosslyn Motet Revisited: While the performance in the chamber maybe didn't produce any occult Freemasonry Magic, the story of it certainly did do some circulation wonders for The Scotsman -- via TDG a tip to a summary of some 'anomalies' in the Stuart Mitchell story, with some clues on tracking who it was who really wrote the motet, and just how it was they could so boldly base the whole key to this decoding on three key cubes that didn't exist...

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