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Last Post 04/07/2013 1:17 PM by  Wayne
Chanting OM in E flat
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04/03/2013 8:09 PM
    I knew from past research that the vibration of Aum, according to the Divine Scale, corresponded to E flat above C3 (the 12th black key from the right on a piano keyboard), which can be sung comfortably. But I never tried chanting it at that frequency until today. When I did, I experienced something interesting. When my lips came together to draw out the mmmmm, the vibration caused a powerful surge of energy.

    There's is something very special about the note E flat. At 639 Hz, it is close to the frequency of the kung note in the Chinese system of music. According to David Tame, "this foundation note was considered to be the earthly manifestation of divine will, and a sacred, eternal principle, upon which was based the proportional system (the weight, size and tone of all things) of the entire state." If the kung was wrong, civilization would decline. Unfortunately, the ruler of each dynasty changed the value for the kung because they reasoned that if the previous dynasty had been right, it wouldn’t have ended. The last Chinese dynasty put the kung at 601.5 Hz, a D. They were wrong.

    The central role of the E flat note was also pointed out by Barbara Hero in her collection of musings and sketches on the mystical aspects of music, "Eyes + Ears = Ideas." She found that it was at the beginning, end, or other key locations in 18 different musical, mathematical or metaphysical patterns. She wrote, "It’s the place at which we find the beginning of life, and the fastest musical pulse of the thirty second note... It becomes the boundary of the end of the time where space begins... it is at the limit of the macrocosmos."

    When I researched songs that are in E flat, I discovered that there are many love songs in E flat major.

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    04/07/2013 1:17 PM
    I found more information on music in E flat major on Wikipedia. It the the key of the heroic.

    The E♭ (E-flat) major scale consists of the pitches E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats: B, E, A.

    Its relative minor is C minor, and its parallel minor is E♭ minor.

    E-flat major is often associated with bold, heroic music, in part because of Beethoven's usage. His Eroica Symphony, Emperor Concerto and Grand Sonata are all in this key. Also Beethoven's (hypothetical) 10th symphony is in the key of E-flat major. But even before Beethoven, Francesco Galeazzi identified E-flat major as "a heroic key, extremely majestic, grave and serious: in all these features it is superior to that of C."[1]

    Thus, three of Mozart's completed horn concerti and Joseph Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto are in E-flat major, and so is Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony with its prominent horn theme in the first movement. Another famous heroic piece in the key of E-flat major is Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life. The heroic theme from the Jupiter movement of Holst's The Planets is in E-flat major. Mahler's vast and heroic Eighth Symphony is in E-flat, and his Second Symphony also ends in the key.

    For Mozart, E flat major was associated with the Masonics, "E flat evoked stateliness and an almost religious character.
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