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    Nicholas Clay

    Communicating Mathematics III


    F IBONACCI N UMBERS AND
    Supervisor: Mikhail Belolipetsky
    M USIC
    The Fibonacci Numbers Piano Chromatic Scale
    The Fibonacci numbers are a famous series where each term is The layout of the piano keys has an obvious relation to the Fi- The chromatic scale uses all of the semitones in an octave and
    the sum of the previous two: bonacci numbers. The white keys form the diatonic scale of C forms the foundation of Western music. There are thirteen
    major. The thirteen notes of an octave are split into eight white notes in a chromatic scale through the octave - a Fibonacci
    0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ... keys and five black keys, which are then split into a group of number!
    three and a group of two:
    These are defined by the following recurrence relation, where
    Fn is the nth Fibonacci number

    Fn = Fn−2 + Fn−1 , n ≥ 2, F0 = 0, F1 = 1
    All of the twelve different notes of the chromatic scale are
    found by ascending in fifths and can be done from any starting
    note. For example, if we start on C we obtain:

    C-G-D-A-E-B-F#-C#-G#-D#-A#-F-C
    Golden Ratio
    which when rearranged becomes:
    If we take a line and break it into two pieces in such a way
    that the whole line has the same ratio to the larger segment as Beethoven C-C#-D-D#-E-F-F#-G-G#-A-A#-B-C
    the larger segment has to the smaller segment, then the two
    segments are said to be in the golden ratio. In his 5th Symphony, Beethoven appears to have used the a chromatic scale on C.
    golden mean, although there is no evidence to suggest that
    When you look at the sequence of ratios FFn+n 1 of consecu- it was intentional. The famous five bar motto from this great
    tive Fibonacci numbers, it converges to 1.618033... as n → ∞, work appears at the beginning and end of the piece, but is also Triads
    which is also the golden ratio, ϕ. present at bar 377, out of a total of 610 bars.
    A major triad is composed of a Root, a Third, and a Fifth and
    610 can be formed by using a recurrence relation similar to that of
    ≈ 1.618 = ϕ the Fibonacci numbers using note frequencies.
    377
    That is, the motto divides the piece into the golden ratio. If we start with middle C (264 Hz) we get:
    Music
    264 + 264 = 528 (C an octave higher)
    Music has a foundation in the series of Fibonacci numbers: 264 + 528 = 792 (G)
    • there are thirteen notes through an octave 528 + 729 = 1320 (E)
    • the most common scales in Western music consist of These three notes, C, E and G form the triad of C major. Al-
    eight notes though the frequencies of the notes obtained are from three
    • the third and fifth notes of a scale form the basic foun- different octaves, it can be seen that the C, E and G families
    dation of chords are related to each other by summations of frequencies.
    • major scales are based on whole tone steps from one note
    to another, which is two steps from the previous note
    all of which are Fibonacci numbers!

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