You think there are certain musical notes, herbs, oils, etc.....

[cassius_clay]

You think there are certain musical notes, herbs, oils and the like that correspond to certain hexagrams?

 

[Grandma]

Cool idea, there probably is a musical correspondence.

 

[lienshan]

Cool idea, there probably is a musical correspondence.

I once made a melody composed of the 64 hexagrams in their binary order using the "music maker 7" software

 

[bruce_g]

I once made a melody composed of the 64 hexagrams in their binary order using the "music maker 7" software

Did you record it? Would love to hear it.

 

[hilary]

I'm enticed by the thought of associating essential oils with hexagrams, but I never seem to get far with it. I don't know as many as 64 oils particularly well. Perhaps bergamot could be 58, and basil (or rosemary, or a blend?) could be 21, and ylang ylang could be 22? Or then again, maybe not...

 

[laylab]

Hilary,

I agree about 22 and ylang ylang! The first time I ever smelled it, I thought of beauty..it definately reminds me of pearls and beautiful hair..

 

[laureet]

Interesting initiative...


In some schools of ancient medicine, herbs were associated to hexagrams as follows from base line up:

1.- Which kind of plant : herb and moss, bush, tree or root. Root is Yin, herb is changing Yin, bush is Yang and tree is changing Yang

2.- How the used part grows(root or bark, leaves, flower, fruits) being Yang leaves, changing Yang flowers, Yin fruits, changing Yin roots and bark.

3.- When it grows stronger or flowers. Winter=yin Spring=Changing Yin Summer= Yang Autumm= Changing Yang You may think that no plant gets stronger in winter but some moss does inside caves or under the frozen soil...

The next trigram was done from down up with:

1.- What it affects? empty organs=Yin solid organs=Yang flow of fluids= changing Yang flow of Qi= changing Yin

2.- What it produces? slows down, decrease=changing yang increases = changing Yin solidify, unite, developes= Yang dilutes, devoids=Yin

3.- What is it taste: sweet=Yin Bitter=Yang Sour, acid= changing Yang dry= changing Yin


Music had also correspondence from down up:

First trigram, base:

1.- Percussion : deep and spaced=Yin fast and shallow= Yang deep and fast= changing Yin shallow and spaced= changing Yin String and wind: upper half octave sustained=Yang lower half octave sustained =Yin higher half octave melodic or interrupted= changing Yang lower half octave melodic or interrupted= changing Yin

2.- Tones= Yin Half tones = Yang stepping up halftone = changing Yin stepping down halftone= changing Yang

3.- Reverberant sound (or bell) = Yin Non reverberant=Yang

Next trigram were voices or melody:

1.- Higher octaves or female voice= Yang Lower octaves or male voice= Yin Scaling = changing Yin Accords= changing Yang

2.- Solo=Yang Silence=Yin

3.- Single voice or choir= Yang multiple chording of one voice (special capacity developed only by some monks and shammans) =Yin

Combination of herbs and inbdication was obtained by Yijing results affinity or so.

Composition of music for therapeutic purpose was the same while composition for artistic purposes was inverse, finding an hexagram which could define what the artist wanted to convey and from there developing the music by the rules above.

What is detailed above comes from two separate sources at an extracurricular discussion during a conference on Yijing study at Taibei, Taiwan in November 1998.

:bows:

 

[hilary]

:bows:

 

[cassius_clay]

To Hilary: Maybe it isn't 64 oils. Some hexagrams would probably share the same essential oil.

To Laureet: That wss interesting. Is there a link to where you got that info from?

 

[laureet]

To Laureet: That wss interesting. Is there a link to where you got that info from?

No, it was in a conference as I said...