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* Most importantly, one can name not only notes but also intervals. As a result, color notation can name scales, chords, chord progressions and even prime subgroups and temperaments. | * Most importantly, one can name not only notes but also intervals. As a result, color notation can name scales, chords, chord progressions and even prime subgroups and temperaments. | ||
'''Colorspeak''' is the term for spoken color notation. It's designed to be easily pronounced no matter what one's native language is and also to be very concise; almost every element of colorspeak is one syllable ending with a vowel. The five basic vowels are pronounced ah-eh-ee-oh-oo (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/) as in Spanish or Italian. | '''Colorspeak''' is the term for spoken color notation. It's designed to be easily pronounced no matter what one's native language is and also to be very concise; almost every element of colorspeak is one syllable ending with a vowel. The five basic vowels are pronounced ah-eh-ee-oh-oo (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/) as in Spanish or Italian. <y> is /j/. <r> is the "whatever" rhotic, transcribed /r/. | ||
== Color names for primes 3, 5, and 7 == | == Color names for primes 3, 5, and 7 == | ||
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| 3-all | | 3-all | ||
| = '''wa''' = white (strong but colorless) = often perfect | | = '''wa''' /wa/ = white (strong but colorless) = often perfect | ||
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| 5-over | | 5-over | ||
| = '''yo''' = yellow (warm and sunny) = often major | | = '''yo''' /jo/ = yellow (warm and sunny) = often major | ||
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| 5-under | | 5-under | ||
| = '''gu''' | | = '''gu''' /gu/ = green (not as bright as yellow) = often minor | ||
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| 7-over | | 7-over | ||
| = '''zo''' = blue/azure (dark and bluesy) = often subminor | | = '''zo''' /zo/ = blue/azure (dark and bluesy) = often subminor | ||
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| 7-under | | 7-under | ||
| = '''ru''' = red (alarming, inflamed) = often supermajor | | = '''ru''' /ru/ = red (alarming, inflamed) = often supermajor | ||
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(One might be tempted to write 11o instead of 1o. This would work on a score, but would be confusing in chord names. The triad C11o would look like a diminished 11th chord. In general, color notation avoids naming primes with the numbers found in chord names, which are 2 4 5 6 7 9 11 and 13.) | (One might be tempted to write 11o instead of 1o. This would work on a score, but would be confusing in chord names. The triad C11o would look like a diminished 11th chord. In general, color notation avoids naming primes with the numbers found in chord names, which are 2 4 5 6 7 9 11 and 13.) | ||
'''Tho''' = 13-over, '''thu''' = 13-under, and '''tha''' = 13-all. Tho and thu are abbreviated as '''3o''' and '''3u''' on the score and in interval names, e.g. 13/8 = 3o6 = tho 6th, 14/13 = 3uz2 = thuzo 2nd. (See the preceding paragraph for why it's 3o and not 13o.) | '''Tho''' /θ/ = 13-over, '''thu''' = 13-under, and '''tha''' = 13-all. Tho and thu are abbreviated as '''3o''' and '''3u''' on the score and in interval names, e.g. 13/8 = 3o6 = tho 6th, 14/13 = 3uz2 = thuzo 2nd. (See the preceding paragraph for why it's 3o and not 13o.) | ||
<u>Prime subgroups:</u> yala = 2.3.5.11, zalatha nowa = 2.7.11.13, and yazalatha = 2.3.5.7.11.13 = the full 13-limit. '''Noya''' is a descriptive adjective, not used in actual prime subgroup names, that indicates the absence of 5 and the presence of higher primes, e.g. zala, latha and zalatha are all noya. Likewise, there's '''noza''', '''noyaza''', etc. | <u>Prime subgroups:</u> yala = 2.3.5.11, zalatha nowa = 2.7.11.13, and yazalatha = 2.3.5.7.11.13 = the full 13-limit. '''Noya''' is a descriptive adjective, not used in actual prime subgroup names, that indicates the absence of 5 and the presence of higher primes, e.g. zala, latha and zalatha are all noya. Likewise, there's '''noza''', '''noyaza''', etc. | ||
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=== Po and qu === | === Po and qu === | ||
'''Po''' and '''qu''' ( | '''Po''' and '''qu''' (/ku/) (short forms '''p''' and '''q''') are two optional accidentals that indicate raising/lowering by a pythagorean comma. (Mnemonics: p stands for pythagorean, and q is the mirror image of p.) Why would one want to do that? Because by first subtracting that comma and then adding it on again, one can rename a note as another note. This is similar to [[Sagittal notation |Sagittal]] notation (see [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png Sagittal-JI-Translated-To-Colors.png]). | ||
For example, F# minus a pythagorean comma is Gb. And Gb plus a pythagorean comma is po Gb. Thus an alternate name for F# is po Gb. <u>Adding po raises the degree by one</u>. The new note name is always a 12edo equivalent of the old note name. Adding qu lowers the degree: {{nowrap|Gb {{=}} qu F#}}. If one is resolving from Gb to G, one can rename Gb as qF#. | For example, F# minus a pythagorean comma is Gb. And Gb plus a pythagorean comma is po Gb. Thus an alternate name for F# is po Gb. <u>Adding po raises the degree by one</u>. The new note name is always a 12edo equivalent of the old note name. Adding qu lowers the degree: {{nowrap|Gb {{=}} qu F#}}. If one is resolving from Gb to G, one can rename Gb as qF#. | ||