500 years ago? If I remember correctly, King Henry VIII was writing the song we call "Greensleeves" 500 years ago, and Martin Luther was writing "A Mighty Fortress is Our God". I am not aware of anyone thinking that music was "bad" at that time. Certainly not so "bad" that it had to be hidden in a code.
Color me skeptical.
I thought no one knew who wrote Greensleeves?
I do think it is cool they have uncovered how the vibration of musical tones create various shapes. Consider that people widely accepted that the earth was flat, 500 or so years ago, and viewed the idea of a round earth rotating around the sun as heretical, the idea of sound waves that could actually affect space that they traveled through and objects they encountered may also have been viewed with skepticism, at least at first or at that time. I’m skeptical about the idea of the Church housing the Holy Grail with the Ark of the Covenant, but the sound wave theory is intriguing.
People just make that kind of stuff up to bash religion.
Certain chords were considered heretical in the early years of church music. Even the BASIC TRIAD chord was considered heretical at some early point - open 5ths were OK, the 3rds were considered to be the "problem".
“I was obsessed by these symbols. I was convinced they meant something.”
I’m with you. The only thing missing from the above fanatical phrase are the words “...in my heart”
or “In my heart of hearts...”
Knowledge of music is different. The study of music was one of the original scientifc desciplines in Ancient Greece. The Study of Geometry, Arithemetic, Astronomy and Music made up a course of study known as the Quadrivism. Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar made up the Trivium. These two courses of study are the basic foundation of the Arts and Sciences that make up a Liberal Arts Education (a REAL Liberal Arts Education). Just as the study of astronomy became heretical, it could be that the scientific study of music was also viewed suspiciously without disruption the artisitc creation of music.
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