Ancient music Discovered in Scotland

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In Edinburgh, Scotland a father and son went to a medieval church on the outskirts of the capital city. As they were carefully inspecting some elaborate carvings they discovered that it appeared to be the symbols of some ancient music. Looking back at history Rosslyn Chapel was built in the fifteenth century. They learned that medieval stone-masons hid harmonies in the patterns that they carved onto cubes. Once built the cubes jutted out from the arches around the altar of the ancient church. To anyone at first glance they would appear to be ancient symbols but not musical symbols. Once the musical symbols were inspected it was discovered that they were words from a hymn to St. John the Baptist. Every note of this hymn was then transcribed and de-coded from the stones. What first made the father and son think to look closer was that they saw carvings of stone angels that formed a kind of orchestra all of them holding musical instruments. One of the angels was holding what appeared to be a sheet of music with a stave and three crucial notes. Almost like a miracle, isn’t this? What is interesting is that the movie “The Da Vinci Code” starring Tom Hanks had scenes filmed at this chapel. The photo is of the Rosslyn Chapel. Who has seen this movie? The interior scenes were filmed inside the chapel but the aerial view of the chapel was based on a model designed especially for the movie since the chapel was under scaffolding at that time. After the movie came out the number of visitors to Rosslyn Chapel increased and on the 10th anniversary of the movie’s release there were two special outdoor screenings shown in September 2016.