Decoding ancient music by watching the movie

By imitating the hit novel ' Da Vinci Code ', the Scottish musicians successfully deciphered the ancient cryptography carved on a church bell tower in Edinburgh, Scoland and found an ancient piece of music. dating back 600 years.

Mr. Thomas Mitchell, 75, a former decoder of the Royal Air Force and a musician and his son, composer Stuart Mitchell, discovered a unique ancient music. This song is encoded by the symbols engraved on the bell tower of Rosslyn church built in the 15th century, located nearly 10km from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Thomas said they discovered this ancient music by reading and imitating the way of decoding that writer Dan Brown described in his hit novel ' The Da Vinci Code '.

"The music has been stored for hundreds of years through symbols and needs to combine musical sensibility with scientific research to find this secret," he said.

A tourist looks up at the signs on Roslyn church bell tower.
(Photo: Reuters)

The musicians named the song "Hymn" Rosslyn and will write more lyrics to complete the song.

They plan to hold a concert to introduce the music at Rosslyn's church on May 18. An orchestra of 4 singers and 8 musicians playing medieval musical instruments will participate in this performance.

Khanh Hoa