THE GOLDEN SECTION IN BARVINSKY’S PIANO PRELUDES OP. 8, NOS. 1–4
Keywords:
Golden Proportions, Implementation of Mathematics’ Harmony in Music.Abstract
This work is a sui generis harmonic analysis of a few relatively short music compositions. As an example, I took piano preludes of internationally known 20th century Ukrainian composer, Vasyl Barvinsky. The goal of this analysis is to uncover mathematical regularities in the structure of a finished music composition, in particular – how its compositional structure corresponds to Golden Section proportions. Thereby, a confirmation of the above-mentioned correspondence (i.e., mathematical regularity) supports theories of universality of mathematical harmony in the arts.
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