[Tig] re: color names: Musical vocabulary references

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> I think the terms that musicians and colorists use are actually  
> very similar.

The best example of this is the chromatic scale.   There's more color  
to the sound
when notes outside the diatonic scale are used.

There is also a condition well-known to medicine wherein the subject  
sees a color
in response to a musical note and tone or timbre, "synesthesia."   see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Rob
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