Musical Keys & Colors

I've never really looked into this type of thing. I usually see colors with certain individual notes. The colors sometimes mix together based on chords or create some kind of rainbow.

I dunno, maybe I'm high or something. lol

I know Mozart used Gm predominantly in his more melancholy pieces, and he and Beethoven both used Dm to invoke fear or panic, but keys representing colors is something new. I think it'd be more based on matching how certain keys make you feel with their color equivalents (since colors are known to encourage certain moods, like red = aggressive, blue = calm).

Maybe it'd be easier to make a list if I was tripping on LSD.

The only one I'm really quite sure about it B minor. It's a sassy key, sexy, like the wife sneaking down into the kitchen to "associate" with a second man. That sort of thing. Therefore, it's dark red.

Some keys do have inherant meanings for humans (or at least a significant proportion of humans), but I don't think it's anywhere near significant enough to be considered universal. D minor, mentioned by bsbray, often sounds inherantly sad to people, myself included. That's nothing to do with social conditioning, associaton or the power of suggestion, because it happens purely on a primal/biological level.

By the way, I am somewhat perplexed as to why people are posting music-related threads in this forum. Why not post elsewhere on the board? The FFA forum exists purely to allow free speech to exist on YC as the description states; it was created to house topics which would not be appropriate for any other of the (public) forums.

Mike, sorry about that. Is there a way to
move this to another place on the forum.

There's no reason to apologise, I was just musing.

But as you have requested it, I have moved this to Composer's Headquarters.

Interestingly, I associate the note A with the color red, as well. Now, I play trumpet and so when I play an A on that it is actually a concert B, but I think the letter A has a distinct redness to me, and that is also present when I compose: A minor is usually a deep red. It's one of my favorite notes, and possibly my favorite key.

Stubbazubba, thats true with me too.
I relate letters and colors as well.
Ecspecially in names.

Like names that start with A such as
Austin I see red. Names that start with L
I see White, names that start with S
I see Yellow, etc...

Sometimes I see more than one color with
names to like the name "Liana".
Li = White, ana = Red.

For what reason people do this I have no
idea. Interesting though.

Jeremy

umm... I don't see too many colors with keys but with pieces I do.