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Magic numbers in the music of Sofia Gubaidulina

2002; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2298/muz0202253t

2406-0976

Valeria Tsenova,

Diverse Musicological Studies

Sofia Gubaidulina's compositions are characterized by a special kind of symbolism and constructivism both based on numbers, i.e. mathematical proportions. In almost all her works so-called numerical plots can be detected. The proportions of the Fibonacci series provide a basis for many of her works composed since the beginning of the 1980s. In more recent times she used some rows derivating from the Fibonacci series, in particular the Lucas sequence.