(WIP, draft version)
Introduction
Literature Review
1. General
1.1 Basic Concept of Sound
1.2 Basic Concept of Color
1.3 Conclusion
1.4 Comparison
2. Harmony
2.1 Harmony
2.2 Major Chords
2.3 Chords Extension
3. Case Study
3.1 Case Study3.2 Application
Reference
I had examined the wheel many times, but there was no reference. Even though there were some attempts at the color and notes, they are very subjective. And even the musicians hold their own subjective views. For example, in the autobiographical Recollections of Sergei Rachmaninoff, recorded a conversation with Scriabin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov about Scriabin’s association of colour and music. All of them held different views. “Both maintained that the key of D major was golden-brown; but Scriabin linked E-flat major with red-purple, while Rimsky-Korsakov favored blue.”
Since nothing is rationally worthy to be the reference, what I can do is believe myself.
But one day, I found a Newton’s color scale in the book History of Western Music Theory, and I was shocked to discover that the one I had chosen was very close to Newton’s Scale. I haven’t found the original source yet, since the book was published by Cambridge, and Newton had studied and taught at Cambridge, it is more reliable than information from the internet, which is totally different from this scale.
(It is also very interesting that Newton, as a milestone person of the foundation of natural science, his discoveries are based on extensive research of patristic theology, alchemy, pagan myths, and so on.)