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Da Vinci and the Mysterious Singing Moon: Listen to an Actual Da Vinci Composition! Must See VlogBlog2013 by Thomas Schoenberger

In keeping with this year’s pledge to reveal to my gentle readers little known facts of towering geniuses ( Da Vinci, Frankin, Mozart, Lincoln, etc), I now want to show you a musical composition by Da Vinci. You did not know Da Vinci was a musician? He was – and a a superb one at that. How much of his music, like his paintings remain lost, hidden. Hopefully, more of it will appear in time.  It is said that Leonardo was easily the most intelligent human being who ever lived. Who knows. He was easily the most famous genius who walked the earth. Here is a sample of a short piece of music he composed around 1500.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxwsKtRdFs

If the above video clip doesn’t play, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BxwsKtRdFs.


I also urge readers to listen to my singing moon composition herein one of my albums for infants.  The idea of creating a polyphonic piece of music a la singing moon ( harvest moon) was the conclusion of an experiment, to see if I could merge a number of melodies at once, and reverse the melody onto itself, as Da Vinci achieved in his famous mirror writings.Thomas Schoenberger

 

 

 

 

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

 

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Mona Lisa into 2013 – Da Vinci Codes and Hidden Symbols: A Look Through History’s 510 year old mystery Through New Eyes

The recent discovery of Leonard Da Vinci’s hidden symbols, painted on canvas, below the surface of the mysterious image of Mona Lisa stunned the research team entrusted to investigate the painting.The markings, discovered through x ray technology to have been painted prior to finishing stokes, has the art world and symbology world atwitter.

In the last three years, researchers intent on revealing the late master’s 500 year old secrets have declared stunning new developments, including, what they claim is the number 72 painted behind Mona Lisa’;s right eye. History would be wise to take notice.

Now we know Da Vinci was born April 15th 1452 ( tax day) and began the Mona Lisa at the age of 51, after a lifetime of study in mathamatics, war engineering technologies, creating far reaching proto types of submarines, heloicopters, etc….This man was so far ahead of his time, he still captivates the world today. I have seen the painting several times, first as a small child in 1967, and then again over the years as I have returned to Paris on business and pleasure. I have watched the tourists scratch their heads.. They KNOW there is a mystery behind her smile. She know somethiing… She has a secret, a very important secret that can chance peoples lives. When she tells this secret to the the rest of the world, if she tells it of course, a lot of people will disagree with her… but, she knows what she knows, no one can chance that..

So as researchers have started their investigation on the eyes, and hit pay dirt, now they must come to terms with, what I think, could be a revolutionary way to look at Da Vinci in his majestic entirety.. in ways Dan Brown may have pointed to…. To give you the story in a nutshell, we start with this http://www.ibtimes.com/mona-lisas-eyes-reveal-da-vincis-real-code-art-historians-250385

Now on to my ponderance. or rather ponderances…..
What if,hidden behind Mona Lisa’s smile, lies a pattern of markings, with a hidden message for a later date? Should we be looking closely at the entire canvas for clues, not just the eyes? We know that what Da Vinci feared most were floods, tidal waves, drowning, water gone wrong. Note the serene water behind Mona Lisa. Could her secret have to do with a amazing insight Da Vinci had about water, and perhaps his answer is hidden behind not just the eyes of the portrait, but behind the entire canvas. Could the peaceful enigma the world knows as “Mona Lisa” actually hide a torrential downpour, a tsunami of water, all dressed up in soft beguiling pigment? Is the most secretive and mysterious smile on earth really a message that, like calm waters turn to rough seas, so too do warm smiles turn into gnashing teeth.Da Vinci, the master of dichotomy, would be capable of such a message. In fact, it would be right up his alley.

His “Riddles”, a corpus of moody and brillantly penatrating drawings sketches and writings, drip deeply with his fear of water. Read his seminal insights on water engineering, and water weaponry in this regard. Floods, consuming floods, controlling water all spelled out in detail…It is as if he is predicting Katrina, Irene, Superstorm Sandy, etc. The man used parhcment sparingly. he could write backwards, and with both hands. He understood water’s fearful symetry long before it became a fashionble term.His eyes saw differently, as Mozart’s ears heard differently, as the rarest among us have the rarest of gifts to stun us centuries later.

Da Vinci actually SAW things differently, that is to say that he took in motion unlike other human beings, He could calculate depth, velocity, color in an instant, would gaze for hours watching birds fly, spent his greatest energies on water…always water..his greatest fear and his greatest problem solving issue….Now for a man bent on hiding his riddles for future generations, it would be just like him to hide his greatest riddles behind his greatest works. Perhaps this is why he kept the painting till he died…..

Now what if he created hidden markings, codes, riddles, behind the entire canvas arena of the Mona Lisa? What if there is a broad constellation of messages embedded in the canvas, delivered in the same manner as he entered crytic knowledge in his codex’s? What if, in many of his late paintings, Da Vinci left clues, clues he wanted kept hidden from the prying eyes of the church, or potential enemies, or feuding ducalities? It stands to reason, considering this genius’s methodology, incredible  acccuracies  and clandestine ways, and in light of his times, Da Vinci had to hide much of what he created.What if researchers have only just begun to unravel the tip of the glacier.Leonardo’s greatest riddles may just be revealed soon.What if Da Vinci had more than one code? ……and what if the codes are hidden in plain sight?. We are on the advent of looking at his art, and the art of the entire renaissance with bold new eyes…….Thomas Schoenberger

 

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Water, Da Vinci, Lake Maggiore and Composing Music

 In one of his many writings on water, its properties and characteristics, Da Vinci observed:

 The waters circulate with constant motion from the utmost depths of the sea     to the highest summits of the mountains, not obeying the nature of heavy  matter; and in this case it acts as does the blood of animals which is always moving from the sea of the heart and flows to the top of their heads; and here it is that veins burst–as one may see when a vein bursts in the nose, that all the blood from below rises to the level of the burst vein. When the water rushes out of a burst vein in the earth it obeys the nature of other things  heavier than the air, whence it always seeks the lowest places.  These waters traverse the body of the earth with infinite ramifications.

For this otherworldly polymath, who understood well the elemental nature of water, this construct still holds true, five centuries after he wrote it.

In some of my music, I have incorporated the sound of old cathedral bells, having listened to them many times during my travels to Florence and Milan. Of special interest has been the northern Italian lake region, Lago Maggiore and Lake Como, the mystical region that has inspired much of my composing.

Always while in Italy, I speak to people about the flood of 1966, since having personally experienced flooding in Florence, I cannot even begin to describe the sheer viscera of watching mud heaving forth, and the river turning dark, choppy, furious.. In many of my winter sojourns, I have grabbed my travelling companion, ran in the rain to an Osteria, steeled myself with a Macchiato, and ran back to my abode to compose more music, using the crescendo of the furious raindrops as my meter.

But back to Da Vinci and his observations. Da Vinci would have much to say if he were alive today. I believe he would have ideas about Super Storm Sandy, the droughts, the Tsunami, the Hurricanes and blizzards. He would , above most ancient genius’s , be a constructive voice in civil engineering, promoting reasonable protective barriers to protect our worlds populations from the ravages of “climate change”.  I further believe he would be experimenting with vibration, as an audio barrier, to contain an encroaching sea. The music I have written in this region of the world,is amber liquid in nature, limpid engorged pieces molding into torrents of tonal passages that, like a bursting of veins, descend upon the listener like a deluge from the seas.

Music must break it’s banks sometimes, like rivers misbehaving, like rain upon a windowpane, and then must be like a giant ocean, silent in it’s profound depth.

Thomas Schoenberger

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PianoWorks Music Composed by Thomas Schoenberger

This is a collection of mostly new compositions. dedicated to the memory of Dr T. Schoenberger — doctor, master gardener, veteran and father. The compositions were inspired by hearing my good friend Professor Robert Levin tackle the most difficult Mozart pieces with grace and ease.

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Thomas Schoenberger

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Are Da Vinci’s Paintings Constructed as We are Constructed — La Scapigliata – Flesh Over Blood and Bone?

We must see how Leonardo teases us, and leaves us clues, in his shapes and colors and geometry and shadows, in his codexes and scribbles, in all that he created….defined so well by the enegmatic smile of the Mona Lisa herself…… Let me introduce a mystery, found only in 1627, years after Da Vinci died, and dating from Leonardo’s later period.  Wiki tells us the following history, with many a page as to provenance and such.

La Scapigliata, which traslates into “the woman of disheveled hair” was discovered in 1627.

The Head of a Woman (also known as La Scapigliata) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, dating from perhaps around 1500 and housed in the Galleria Nazionale of Parma, Italy.  The work is an unfinished painting, mentioned for the first time in the House of Gonzaga collection in 1627. It is perhaps the same work that Ippolito Calandra, in 1531, suggested to hang in the bedroom of Margaret Paleologa, wife of Federico II Gonzaga. In 1501, the marquesses wrote to Pietro Novellara asking if Leonardo could paint a Madonna for her private studiolo.

The painting, part of the Parmesan collection since 1839, has been dated to Leonardo’s mature period, near to the Virgin of the Rocks or The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist. — Wikipedia

But merely turn the image sideways and you can see what a magician Leonardo truly is. At the neck of the image, a calm, serene, and perfectly coiffed figure appears ethereally..as if in contrast to the disorder of the main figure…..It’s very faint and hard to see, but to me, it’s there, and fits perfectly with the dichotomy Leonardo so enjoyed. This is also the period of his masterpieces Virgin of the Rocks, and of course John the Baptist.

I wonder if the faint second face has escaped the eye of the art historians in Italy, and for that matter abroad. I see nothing in the historical record to make me think anyone knows anything about this.If we are to view Leonardo’s art as we do his codexes and studies, then it makes sense that a man who would be driven to perform autopsies so he could understand muscle and flesh and sinew, and then portray his fellow man in such divine colors and beauty,would also hide messages underneath his work, as flesh hides blood and muscle and sinew…..If a man who viewed water as the “lifeblood” of cities, and used flowing ringlets of hair to depict water is telling us something, perhaps we should listen,.Look at Da Vinci’s paintings in a new light….and things leap out at you that remained motionless for centuries……Da Vinci codes?

Thomas Schoenberger

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