The Elements of Music in The I Ching

 Let us have a look at the I Ching musically once more………

Here we see the four sections of the I Ching each of which contain 16 DNA Codon or Hexagrams. 

Blue - C Water    Orange - T Fire    Yellow - G Air    Green - A Earth

Each of the 16 in each section will begin with the letter associated with its element. E.g. All codons in the Blue square begin with C….this is the large section …….the next letter varies a little with a choice of 4 notes and this is the medium section…..the small section also has a choice of 4 notes and between them they create a musical pattern of three notes which is equivalent to a DNA Codon.  Lets add the notes to the next image…

The element Water C top left contains two versions that could be played on only the black keys of the piano. Denoted by the Teal coloured lines. 

D# F# G# and D# F# A#… A Earth has just one C# F# A#… the fire and air quadrants do not contain any codons played only on black piano keys.

The purple lines denote patterns seen only on white keys and this time C & A cannot play on white key…T and G only can be played on white keys only…

C E A…C E B… C F A… C F B… C G A… C G B … Fire T 

D E A… D E B… D F A… D F B… D G A… D G B…Air G

Finally the only three notes that denote a diablos sound in all 64 codons is seen with the brown line between C F B. One scale equals 12 keys 7 white (Secret 7) and 5 black (famous 5). So only one three letter Diablos can be created here. 

So 1 Diablos…..3 all on black keys…..12 all on white keys….. 16 in total and 48 played out on both black and white keys. What it means is something for the more musically minded amongst us to work out. Enjoy your thinking. X