Talk:Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

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I have removed the sentence mentioned the Golden Section in regard to the first movement. It was probably based on Ernö Lendvai's publications, but to be honest most of his "discoveries" are hogwash. In this case he claims the first movement has 89 bars (so that with the climax after 55 bars we have the Fibonacci numbers 55 and 89), when in reality it has only 88 bars. So it is a 5/8 section, no more, no less. And that is 62,5%, not "exactly 61%" as the author of this article claims. I wouldn't mind a critical examination of Lendvai as he wrote a lot about this piece. But just mentioning it in once sentence without any further explanation only helps to carry on the myth that Bartok was obsessed with the Golden Section which he most likely wasn't.