RE: [microsound] Fibonacci in music

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:41 PM -0500 3/22/05, Paulo Mouat wrote:

> The division of two consecutive terms of a sequence with any two natural
> numbers as starting points and where terms are determined through addition
> of the two previous terms will eventually tend to the golden section.  This
> is not intrinsic to the Fibonacci series and is probably the reason why the
> golden section is widely found in nature.

Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.

After a little informal investigation it appears that Fibonacci 
converges a little more quickly than other series, but by the 10th 
term or so they're all pretty close.

Do you have any pertinent references?
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