The Associated Press posted an article in 2007 about an Italian musician, Giovanni Pala, who believes he found a piece of musical composition hidden within Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper.” Pala, a composer and computer technician, raises the possibility that da Vinci may have left behind a somber composition intended to accompany the famous scene. “It sounds like a requiem,” Pala claims, “emphasizing the passion of Christ.” In his book, “La Musica Celata,” or “The Hidden Music,” Pala explains how he related different clues from religious symbols in the painting. Drawing five lines for a musical staff across the image, he was able to use these symbols, together with the positions of the hands of Christ and the disciples, to draw musical notes across the fresco. Further, Pala realized, the notes have to be read from right to left, according to da Vinci’s writing style, to make …