8 to 13 is an example of the Golden Ratio. There are also 49 entrances in The Magic Flute, divided up as 19 in Act I and 30 in Act II. This too is an example of the Golden Ratio. Furthermore, the Overture contains a division between 81 bars and 130, yet another Golden Ratio.
Golden Ratio is thus contained within Golden Ratio, an image of the endless repetition of the primordial forms. Each individual part of the Creation is complete unto itself. One can take apart the Cosmos and find perfect miniature "worlds" that can be put back together to form a coherent whole. According to the Classical canon of art, the human body is built upon the Golden Ratio. By drawing lines through the navel, the artist created a series of ideal shapes such as were reflected in the larger universe.
A dramatic, as well as a musical work, Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, permits human beings to participate in the dynamic of creation, their movements in tune with the ageless rhythms of numerology. The music that is the world's soul inspires not just the particular work, but continues to drive new creations within the hearts and souls of the listeners and spectators. It is a complete experience, combining audience and composer, human and divine.
Thus, do the Baroque and Classical composers attain transcendence through the numerological aspect of music. Musical compositions, even highly complex ones like opera, are composed of numerous apparently separate parts. These are seamlessly fitted together by the composer who works in accordance with complex, and profound rules of numerological order. These numerological principles transcend the mere space of the work, they spread through the separate parts and unite them, linking the entire composition to the rhythms of the universe outside. The composer creates apiece in much the same way that the Creator forms the cosmos. Numbers have meaning. By themselves they stand for sacred books and figures. Added, multiplied, divided, or squared, they produce other sacred numbers. Specific mathematical formulas correspond to deeper universal truths. The Golden Ratio is an image of the endlessly repeated, and eternally perfect, proportions of the Cosmos. The Fibonacci Sequence represents a principle for adding those sacred values together, and augmenting the perfect space. Bach and Mozart worked with universal truths, at greater or lesser degrees of proximity to the Divine source. Where Bach aspired to recreate the Divine impact on the natural and human world, Mozart sought to display humankind's pivotal role in shaping that Divine Creation. Pythagoras first formulated the theory that music constituted the "sound" of the Cosmos. In their...
" (Pettersson, 2006) Oral and written verbal art languages are both used for the purpose of information communication as well as information presentation with the reader and listener receiving an invitation to consider the information. The Narrative & the Symbolic The work of Abiola Irele (2001) entitled: "The African Imagination: Literature in Africa & the Black Diaspora" states that Hampate Ba "...incorporates the essential feature of the oral narrative at significant points
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