clorophilla

I'm fascinating, normal! I was looking for some match with zodiac too. Unfortunately, I have serious problem to understand the english terminology of what you have said, I'd need an Italian explanation I think!

Normal

My suggestion, cloro - draw a circle, divide it into 12 equal slices and label them with the colors, zodiac signs, notes if you feel like. Just start with red, Aries and C and the rest is easy. To place the colors, it's easiest to start with the primary red/yellow/blue on slices 1/5/9. Once you put the secondary colors (green/violet/orange) opposite those, the tertiary colors become obvious. Blue-green lies between green and blue and so on.

mum23

Oh wow! So many more wonderful entries! I'm so glad you're enjoying this... I certainly am!

LOL, clorophilla! I've spoken English for most of my life, and I had to read the first explanation about six times before I understood! Thanks, Normal! I'm going to go and try out the chords, but I'm afraid I still don't understand the connection with the zodiac!

Normal

Sorry the basic music theory is off-putting. Simplest examples:

MAJOR chord = C-E-G Augmented chord = C - E - G#

minor chord = C - Eflat (D#) - G diminished chord = C - D# - F#

Easy to hear why they mainly stick with MAOR & minor.

Login

Anyone who doesn't read music will be as perplexed as I am.

Normal

That was supposed to be MAJOR, of course. Login - that was for those like Mum23, who was going to "go try out the chords," presumably on a keyboard with which she is familiar. No "reading" of music involved! However a passing awareness of Middle C and the other note names would be a prerequisite.

clorophilla

well, as I'll have a bunch of time I'll try to do the coloured zodiac with a wiki translation of tones (I play guitar but am unfamiliar with alfabetic names, for mi tones are do re mi fa sol la si...

in the while, here another purple/yellow quick entry:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120437

Login

Normal, although I can sing in tune (and have never been asked to shut up), I wouldn't know middle C if I fell over it.

Login

Aaaah ... crash! o-/-^=;

hanging

Lol Login, I have no idea and have given up to figure out those note names. (Sorry Normal, but it's beyond my brain capacity!)

hanging

I mean given it up from the beginning.

mum23

Too funny, Login!! I hope you didn't hurt yourself!

I used to feel that way about music, too. It seemed so confusing and scary. Then, I started taking the kids to piano lessons and learned with them. The theory is really not at all difficult! I do find, though, that their young minds and fingers find it so much easier to learn new songs than mine do!

Back to colours!
Here is a link to a page which allows you to play around with colour combinations of all sorts. Just click on whatever colour scheme you want, and then move the dot around the circle to see what colour combinations work... it is very interesting!

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

polenta

My husband, who is a musician, says that everything in Major Chord sounds optimistic , lively and happy, for example military marches.
Most music in Minor Chord or Mode sounds sad, melancholy even depressive. For instance "Ideale" by Paolo Tosti or Schubert's "Serenade".

polenta

Sorry forget "Ideale". I think it's Major Mode.

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120529

clorophilla

red and green again... at least, since the chameleon won't change his colour!
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120563

zum117

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120509

Normal

Sorry to throw a log into Login's path - ouch! Cloro - your do,re, mi tones would work fine - just don't forget the sharps/flats. I discovered in Music Theory that Europeans use a fixed do system, with do always C. We use a movable do system, with do always the tonic (1st note) of whatever scale is being played. Sort of like driving on the "other" side of the road!

Polenta - your hubby is right. Western composers have long used those feelings inspired by the Major/minor difference. Even odder are the early church modes. Last night I heard a program at our local university with a Men's octet from Tasmania, plus bells & bowls, plus 3 Cantors for solo parts in Hebrew, Greek & Latin. Pretty strange, but beautiful.

Normal

PS - sorry to wander so far afield! I'm enjoying all the color experiments too!

Pumpkingirl

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120610