The Western news., 1903-08-12
TONES AND COLORS.
Discovery Of a Remarkable Phenom
enon by a Scientist.
Rays OF Light Which Produce Ger
tain Colors Correspond Exasctly
with Certain neS-Use in
Musical InstructlOn.

harmoniZing of one and the artistic
blending of the others appeal to the
same sense of the beautiful; that
sweet sounds and pleasing color
effects are very much akin. 1t has re-
mained for Philadelphia professor to
trace this phantasy to it's source; to
materialize the vague impressions of
dreamers and to reduce them to mat
ter of science, says the New York Her.
aid. 1t has long been common knowl-
edge that our conception of both musi-
cal tones and colors is due to the effect
of vibrating waves of movement, but it
is something new to learn that there is
close and exact sympathetic rela-
tionship between the notes of the scale
and the colors of the spectrum; that
the same system of nature governs
each and that discords arise in ill
matched hues from infringement of
the same rules which govern the COM
bination of sounds according to the
science we call harmony.
1t is amazing to learn that the seven
co:ors of the rainbow exactly CORE
snond with the seven notes of the
lamut, ard that red, being the domi-
Liant, has to the other colors the same
comparative refrangibility. or ''wave
lines" as the dominant in any chord
] as to the other notes in the scale. 1t
will blend artistically and pleasingly
t,.iv with such colors as represent
notes which in music may be harmon
iously used with the dominant.
1t is claimed by the discoverer of
this phenomenon in science, and he
Las devoted the last 90 years to the
I: udy Of relationship between tone and
'lor. that the rays of light which pro-
tuce red, at the tase Of the sp. ctrum,
correspond exactly with sound waves
:"spnrsii3le for do" the keynote at
,le base Of the tonic scale Orange
eorresnonds with "re," yellow with
Green with "fa," blue with "sol,"
, '="!2 with "la" and violet with Isl"
afnre scientific experiments and re-
rch established hes - argues
professor. iiaTressionists. poets
+" 'ainters felt this close union he-
"tn tone and color. hrti.t IS I:rew
4 warm splash of red, giving an
2' 1t ~ ~ tIitilhSit' UHt ItuT-
to the eye. would dominate the
'e n,rtu"e. "Do,' the tonic in
SIC. is recognized as the centripe tal
'f"n"site II effect is the cocl,
~ -. which is in agrt naent
!, 49, the Ci ar. rinrr ''f Il" Of
'- The tone Of centriT,i. nj force,
>" lie midway and in perfect harmony
is mi the yellow. the sweet but un-
obtrusive third" of the scale. These
three colors combined form a most
pleasing group, while the correspond
ing tones form the tonic chord, the
basis of all harmony.
This remarkable science, or theory,
whichever it may properly be called,
has been put to practical purpose in
the artistic and, musical training of
little children, at an age when their
minds are especially susceptible to i'm
pressions of sweet sounds and bright
colors, when the intelligence is mainly
working through the medium of their
senses
For this purpose an ingenious ar
rangement of colored balls and sticks
has been devised, by which the first
instincts of harmony are instilled into
children who have scarcely learned
their alphabet. AT the same time they
arrangement of colors.
While certain sequences or COM
blnations of colors are being exhib-
tied, sympathetic melodies and chords
are heard. and the little ones quickly
learn to associate the two. After
awhile they will sing tunes hitherto
unlearned or unheard by them. mere
ly following the exhibition of the Diff
ferent colors, which to them have be-
come associated with and expressive
of tone. For instance. should the fol-
lowing sequence of colors appear:
Red, Red, Orange, Violet, ked, Orange.
Yellow, Yellow, Green, Yellow, Orange.
Red,
Orange, Red, Violet, Red,
they would instinctively recognize the
melody of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
and heartily Join in singing. To have
taught this by musical notation would
have been impossible.
When they have grown older the or
dinary method of musical tuition is
aided by the printing of each note in
it's corresponding color This is
claimed to show the essential unity of
the scale in all its different positions
on the staff. to give pictorial repre-
sentation of the modulations from kew
to key and greatly to simplify the
study OF harmony by showing at a
glance the real charaoten OF be eherdI
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