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Offline kayordee

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Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
on: September 25, 2008, 06:43:27 AM
Kinda in response to a topic redbaron posted. He mentioned that he imagined musical keys have colours, I also imagine musical keys to have a colour to them. Here's what I think each keys colour is ;D

Cmaj - White
Cmin - Purple
C#maj - Purple bluey colour
C#min - Dark Purple
Dmaj - Red/maroon
Dmin - Maroon
Ebmaj - Orangy yellow colour
Ebmin - Black
Emaj - yellow (not a bright yellow)
Emin - yellow
Fmaj - purple
Fmin - Maroony purple
F#maj - Dark pink
F#min - Dark pink
Gmaj - light Green
Gmin - medium Green mixed with brown
G#maj - dark green
G#min - Darkgreen
Amaj - Pink
Amin - Purpley pinkish
Bbmaj - Red
Bbmin - Blue
Bmaj - red
Bmin - red

I wanna know what colours some people imagine some or all of the keys. Add some colour to this topic!! ;D

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Offline Petter

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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 09:43:04 PM
Cmaj - White

Ebmin - Black


Correlates with the color of the keys perhaps? I have the same impression hehe
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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 11:34:10 PM
This description is somewhat flawed. What about pieces that don't have a clear tonality, or one at all? I've heard some very very colorful pieces that are atonal or with a free tonality. What say you all about that?

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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 11:58:28 PM
C#min seems more like sky-blue to me...
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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #4 on: September 26, 2008, 06:36:53 AM
To me the colo(u)rs that I "see" depend more on the respective piece than on the mere key. And they're changing throughout the pieces. Cmaj f.i. can appear black or white or purple, depends on the context and the mood of the piece. I think of really scary Cmaj parts, as in the Rach sonata no 1, development.

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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #5 on: September 26, 2008, 04:49:52 PM
there arn't many pieces that stay in one key, so what colour would you say a Mahler symphony was? Mahler himself hated having to say a symphony was in a certain key as they aren't in one for long

although Stephen Fry said that Mozarts symphony No. 36 is distinctly brown
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Offline kayordee

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Re: Colour of music (Aussies spell colour that way)
Reply #6 on: September 27, 2008, 10:00:42 PM
I'm really referring to what I or yourself may play on the piano. When I play in Amaj e.g Mozart piano sonata no.11 I envision pink, but when it starts going into e maj and one of the variations in Amin i feel an undescribable mix of the colours until the music is firmly in one key. So I guess that means constantly transposong pieces are flourishes of colour with sparks of colour from a certain key if it is present for substantial amount of time for me to envision the colour- which is isnt very long like 2 seconds i think.


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