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Theory of the correspondence of music and image
Colours and Music Intervals
The colour represents components of white
light spectrum. There are three primary
colours – blue, yellow and red,
which cannot be obtained by mixing other paints. The other three
colours (green, orange and violet) are the combinations of primary
ones.
Clean music chord contains
6 harmonic intervals. For clarity sake, the intervals should be
given the numerical value representing number of semitones in the
interval.
For example, the C-major chord notes are Do, Mi, Sol and Do (in
alt). The following intervals will be possible in this chord: Do/Mi
(major third) – 4 semitones, Mi/Sol (minor
third) – 3 semitones, Sol/Do of next
octave (perfect fourth) – 5 semitones,
Do/Sol (perfect fifth) – 7 semitones,
Mi/Do (minor sixth) – 8 semitones, Sol/Mi
(major sixth) – 9 semitones.
Thus, three intervals (3, 4, 5) are being
the basic ones, and another three (7, 8, 9) are component ones since
these can be obtained by composing 3, 4 and 5.
In the diagram: comparison of colours and interval
values (open the comparisons)
Thus, you can see the correspondence
of two super-harmonious structures – white light and the consonant
chord, which consist of equal number of elements. The properties
of light elements coincide with the properties of consonant chord
elements, namely: three basic elements; composition of component
ones out of them (optical for colours, and mathematical for octave
semitones); contrast (for example, red contrasts with the green,
perfect fourth is the conversion from the perfect fifth).
Additional diagrams
Comparison
of colours and sound intervals on piano keys
Comparison of colours and
sound intervals on gitar tabs
Examples in different keys on the note rule
Comparison of optical addition of colours and addition of interval
values
Auxiliary explanations
Why the
diagram represents less colours than the rainbow colour count?
Why a note
can not correspond to a colour?
What is
a consonant chord and consonance intervals?
Why the
intervals are to be given the numerical values of semitones?
Why the interval of 3 semitones is compared with the
blue colour and not with yellow one, for instance?
How the multitude of colours we see is expressed in music?
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