Rhythm in Proportion
It is simple to look at an object or a scene and recognize a systematic unity among the mass that is often referred to as proportion.
But what about a relativity when it comes to sound? Sometimes there is something magical to the way a song sounds with a perfect beat and a form that you are able to keep a natural pace to.
Does this happen from the work of a great musical genius? Or perhaps a creative composition never before discovered? Would you believe the principles of the Golden Proportion are to credit? That's right, even music is measured to perfection through a symmetry that flows, not as a rhythm or on an even repetitive balance but through a pattern of syllables.
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) is known for having a secret method of composing his music.
It was later discovered that this secret method was nothing more than the principles of the Golden Proportion.
About the same time, western music was being blended with African and Latin tunes in an effort to create a new rhythm and sound for a brand new century, filled with excitement.
The combination of Bartok's limericks and a ragtime cultural rhythm was key in the development of modern day music that possesses the same symmetrical patterns of everything else that has benefited from the Golden Proportion.
The major contributor to the overall pattern of this new music was the stressed and unstressed syllables that they delivered.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
, this is the well-known Fibonacci series where the successive number is the sum of the two preceding numbers (1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, etc).
Comparing the stressed and unstressed syllables in a song, you will find these combinations, quite possibly by accident but more likely by the lead made by Bartok.
Everything in nature follows this natural rule, daisies, sunflowers, trees, and so on, to keep in sync with a perpetual pattern in proportion.
What is more natural than music that follows the same course? It is highly impossible that the limerick of Bartok and the native rhythm of ragtime had ever met before the turn of the century but still, if both styles of music are listened to individually, you will find a different type of symmetry in both.
Yet, when joined together, a unique, yet similar proportion is discovered.
Music is just another example of how the world revolves around the known or unknown reality of the Golden Proportion.
You may find it only a chance of circumstance but is it really? You can actually measure the significance of syllable, rhythms and patterns for yourself by possessing the Golden Mean Gauge.
For more information and interesting facts on finding a vast world full of symmetry, visit www.
goldenmeangauge.
co.
uk.
But what about a relativity when it comes to sound? Sometimes there is something magical to the way a song sounds with a perfect beat and a form that you are able to keep a natural pace to.
Does this happen from the work of a great musical genius? Or perhaps a creative composition never before discovered? Would you believe the principles of the Golden Proportion are to credit? That's right, even music is measured to perfection through a symmetry that flows, not as a rhythm or on an even repetitive balance but through a pattern of syllables.
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) is known for having a secret method of composing his music.
It was later discovered that this secret method was nothing more than the principles of the Golden Proportion.
About the same time, western music was being blended with African and Latin tunes in an effort to create a new rhythm and sound for a brand new century, filled with excitement.
The combination of Bartok's limericks and a ragtime cultural rhythm was key in the development of modern day music that possesses the same symmetrical patterns of everything else that has benefited from the Golden Proportion.
The major contributor to the overall pattern of this new music was the stressed and unstressed syllables that they delivered.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34...
, this is the well-known Fibonacci series where the successive number is the sum of the two preceding numbers (1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, etc).
Comparing the stressed and unstressed syllables in a song, you will find these combinations, quite possibly by accident but more likely by the lead made by Bartok.
Everything in nature follows this natural rule, daisies, sunflowers, trees, and so on, to keep in sync with a perpetual pattern in proportion.
What is more natural than music that follows the same course? It is highly impossible that the limerick of Bartok and the native rhythm of ragtime had ever met before the turn of the century but still, if both styles of music are listened to individually, you will find a different type of symmetry in both.
Yet, when joined together, a unique, yet similar proportion is discovered.
Music is just another example of how the world revolves around the known or unknown reality of the Golden Proportion.
You may find it only a chance of circumstance but is it really? You can actually measure the significance of syllable, rhythms and patterns for yourself by possessing the Golden Mean Gauge.
For more information and interesting facts on finding a vast world full of symmetry, visit www.
goldenmeangauge.
co.
uk.
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