Darbey colorful music keys update#
Darbey colorful music keys full#

Even then, many students have achieved a fair amount of competence on their instrument working under the simple impression that more accidentals in the key signature means a more complicated key. Many teachers refrain from teaching much further into the topic of keys until students are more experienced and more easily able to digest the theory and technicalities. We learn that this key signature indicates which notes will be sharped or flatted throughout the piece until its end, or until we encounter another key signature. But what does it really mean to be 'in the key' of something?Īs beginners, we learn that it in some way refers to the number of sharps or flats ( accidentals ) we encounter at the beginning of a piece. Minuets in the key of G, Sonatas in the key of A, Nocturnes in the key of E minor, Fugues in the key of F#, and so on. To get around G (696nm) and G# (657nm) both translating red in RGB color space, and the deepness of F# violet: I would suggest using violet for F#, dark red for G, red for G#, and orange for A.“ In the key of… ” - we rarely get far into our musical endeavors before we find ourselves faced with this phrase. G#: 657nm (unfortunately also red in RGB colorspace).To convert notes into colors in the most physics-inspired way, multiply the audio frequencies by 2^40 (40 octaves) to obtain terahertz frequencies in the visible range. So if there WAS to be a standard, it'd probably be this :)īut if you go to and ask THAT forum whatĬolor notes should be, you'll get back a BIG LOUD yell of That C is usually your keysignature note and is the The reason you don't want A as your base color is Minor scale would have yellowgreen instead of green, etc. Red,yellow,green,cyan,blue,purple,magenta Stepping the 'hue' of a color in 12 steps gets you those. The scale (12th in the octave, 7th in the major scale). Then the 12 tertiary colors take us up to the leading tone of So that should be an obvious thing to map. There are 12 tertiary colors and there are 12 tones in an octave.

Here's some off the wall thing I found about music, this might be the sort of tool you are looking to use: NASA, NOAA, and many astronomy images use pseudo-color: You might want to see how scientists use pseudo-color to assist in illustrating a condition or concept. Many artists have tried to correlate color with sound so it is definitely a notion that has been around for a long time. It might be interesting to perhaps make up your own. This would be an arbitrary process as there is no way to convert say 'A' 440 Hz into a specific wave length of light. There is no standard for converting musical notes into colors. My answer below from 7 years ago should now read that there is a way to covert A 440 Hz to a color, but not necessarily every note is so secure to have a color such as E through F# appear to be on the borders.

Darbey colorful music keys update#

This update (2-28-2021) shows a more scientific way to convert music to color but still has a lot of room for arbitration. Also, visible light is both made of particles and waves, where audio is simply waves.

Additionally, the audio spectrum we can hear is about 10 octaves, so it is arbitrary which of the 10 audio octaves to convert the color.

Darbey colorful music keys full#

For one thing the visible spectrum is just shy of an octave, 400–790 THz so trying to make a full octave means that if you start with Red, the top note won't be visible or if you start with infrared to see the highest note then the lowest note might not be visible. This update suggests a standard way to convert notes into colors, but still there is some room for interpretation. Here is a graphic that demonstrates the conversion of light to sound. For example, if you raise 'the note A 440 Hertz' forty octaves it's frequency is close to 483.79 THz which is in the range of the color orange. Or go from a color's frequency and divide by the same constant and derive a tone. This is achieved by doubling the tone as in raise an octave but do this 40 times to reach visible light frequencies.