by Reginald King Mark Bebbington THE resurgence of light music both on disc and latterly in the concert hall-thanks to conductors like John Wilson-has been a phenomenon of the last 20 years.
Golden Ratio. The golden ratio (symbol is the Greek letter phi shown at left) is a special number approximately equal to 1.618. It appears many times in geometry, art, architecture and other areas.
Nature has always been admired for its patterns and symmetry. The human body is an example of nature's proportion. Phi, the Golden Number 1.618, is a proportion found in many areas of the natural world as well as in the structure of the human body. Many of the bones that form our skeleton are thought to have a proportional relationship of 1:1.618. The human body itself is believed to be symmetrical as displayed in Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man in which a man with outstretched arms fits exactly into a square.