Gymnopedie I
#ds380 11/30/10
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
The Golden Ratio has been used in art for millennia.
Use or illustrate the Golden Ratio in a photograph today.
It is believed that Erik Satie was aware of and consciously incorporated principles of the Golden Ratio or Golden Section in his music. Notations in the borders his composition notebooks indicate that he was carefully counting measures and creating structure in this and other pieces, that conformed to these principles. And as it says in the description above, Satie named "The Gymnopedies" after an ancient Spartan festival, inspired by his interest in Classic Greek art. There are many examples of the use of the Golden Ratio in ancient Greek art, so it all makes sense.
This photo is a two-fer... because the piano keyboard itself is made up of a series of Fibonacci numbers.
From "Music and the Fibonacci Series": goldennumber.net/music.htm:
There are 13 notes in the span of any note through its octave.
A scale is comprised of 8 notes, of which the
5th and 3rd notes create the basic foundation of all chords, and are based on whole tone which is
2 steps from the root tone, that is the
1st note of the scale.
Note too how the piano keyboard of C to C above of 13 keys has 8 white keys and 5 black keys, split into groups of 3 and 2.
The ratios... 13/8, 8/5, 5/3, 3/2... all have the same approximate value of 1.6 or "Phi", the Golden Ratio number, 1.618. Fascinating stuff!
And a side note: This is one of my favorite pieces to play on the piano, by the way. :-)
Gymnopedie I
#ds380 11/30/10
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
The Golden Ratio has been used in art for millennia.
Use or illustrate the Golden Ratio in a photograph today.
It is believed that Erik Satie was aware of and consciously incorporated principles of the Golden Ratio or Golden Section in his music. Notations in the borders his composition notebooks indicate that he was carefully counting measures and creating structure in this and other pieces, that conformed to these principles. And as it says in the description above, Satie named "The Gymnopedies" after an ancient Spartan festival, inspired by his interest in Classic Greek art. There are many examples of the use of the Golden Ratio in ancient Greek art, so it all makes sense.
This photo is a two-fer... because the piano keyboard itself is made up of a series of Fibonacci numbers.
From "Music and the Fibonacci Series": goldennumber.net/music.htm:
There are 13 notes in the span of any note through its octave.
A scale is comprised of 8 notes, of which the
5th and 3rd notes create the basic foundation of all chords, and are based on whole tone which is
2 steps from the root tone, that is the
1st note of the scale.
Note too how the piano keyboard of C to C above of 13 keys has 8 white keys and 5 black keys, split into groups of 3 and 2.
The ratios... 13/8, 8/5, 5/3, 3/2... all have the same approximate value of 1.6 or "Phi", the Golden Ratio number, 1.618. Fascinating stuff!
And a side note: This is one of my favorite pieces to play on the piano, by the way. :-)