Kite's color notation: Difference between revisions
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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/, / | '''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 ({{w|/a/}}, {{w|/ɛ/}}, {{w|/i/}}, {{w|/o/}}, and {{w|/u/}}) as in Spanish or Italian. <y> is {{w|/j/}}. <r> is the "whatever" rhotic, transcribed {{w|/r/}}. | ||
== Color names for primes 3, 5, and 7 == | == Color names for primes 3, 5, and 7 == | ||