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 | | Furthermore, it is worth noting that dividing the movement in two at the eleventh bar forms two sections whose lengths correspond to the ratio known as the "Golden Proportion," a formal division identified by Fibonacci and used to great significance in works of other composers as diverse as Monteverdi and Bartók. |
 | | Thus, the second violin's second note, which occurs on the second eighth note of the measure, is an E-natural to correspond with the third sixteenth note in the first violin's palindrome. |
 | | Each of the other voices similarly articulates an increasing number of sixteenth notes within each rhythmic cell (the values of the second violin, viola, and cello's rhythmic cells are five, six, and seven sixteenth notes respectively), until the cell lines up with the final sixteenth note of a measure. |
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