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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">=__**Kite's color notation**__=  


The following is excerpted from [[KiteGiedraitis|Kite's]] forthcoming book, "Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice", available at [[@http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html|www.TallKite.com]].
The following is excerpted from [[KiteGiedraitis|Kite's]] forthcoming book, "Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice", available at [http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html www.TallKite.com].


Color notation provides a way to talk about ratios without using numbers, making microtonal music more accessible to people who aren't mathematically inclined. It's designed for just intonation, but like sagittal notation, it can be expanded to cover temperaments. Also, even those who never use JI still generally talk about ratios quite a bit, and this notation can be a useful tool. For example, temperaments can be named after the color of the comma(s) that are tempered out.
Color notation provides a way to talk about ratios without using numbers, making microtonal music more accessible to people who aren't mathematically inclined. It's designed for just intonation, but like sagittal notation, it can be expanded to cover temperaments. Also, even those who never use JI still generally talk about ratios quite a bit, and this notation can be a useful tool. For example, temperaments can be named after the color of the comma(s) that are tempered out.


==**__CRASH COURSE__:**==  
=='''<u>CRASH COURSE</u>:'''==
White = 3-limit, yellow = major, green = minor, blue = subminor, red = supermajor. The lattice looks like this:
White = 3-limit, yellow = major, green = minor, blue = subminor, red = supermajor. The lattice looks like this:
[[image:lattice31.png width="628" height="291"]]
 
[[File:lattice31.png|alt=lattice31.png|628x291px|lattice31.png]]


Notes are named wC, bE♭, etc. Triads are named after their 3rd: Cy, Gb, etc. A y chord is a major chord.
Notes are named wC, bE♭, etc. Triads are named after their 3rd: Cy, Gb, etc. A y chord is a major chord.
[[image:lattice62.png width="640" height="138"]]
 
[[File:lattice62.png|alt=lattice62.png|640x138px|lattice62.png]]


Tetrads are named Cyy, Dgr, etc. The last letter refers to either a maj 6th or a min 7th, unless otherwise specified. Here's the main 7-limit chord types:
Tetrads are named Cyy, Dgr, etc. The last letter refers to either a maj 6th or a min 7th, unless otherwise specified. Here's the main 7-limit chord types:
[[image:lattice63a.png width="626" height="561"]]
 
[[File:lattice63a.png|alt=lattice63a.png|626x561px|lattice63a.png]]


Chord progressions: the root of each chord has a color. C -- Am -- F -- G would be wCy -- yAg -- wFy -- wGy. The I, IV and V chords are assumed to have white roots unless otherwise specified, so Cy -- yAg -- Fy -- Gy. Here's Iyb -- IVyb -- Iyb -- Vyb in B flat:
Chord progressions: the root of each chord has a color. C -- Am -- F -- G would be wCy -- yAg -- wFy -- wGy. The I, IV and V chords are assumed to have white roots unless otherwise specified, so Cy -- yAg -- Fy -- Gy. Here's Iyb -- IVyb -- Iyb -- Vyb in B flat:
[[image:Notation example 1.png width="619" height="81"]]


[[File:Notation_example_1.png|alt=Notation example 1.png|619x81px|Notation example 1.png]]
=='''<u>FULL EXPLANATION</u>:'''==
==[[7-limit_interval_names|7-limit interval names]]==
==[[Note_names|Note names]]==
==[[Chord_names|Chord names]]==
==[[Chord_progressions,_scales,_keys_and_modulations|Chord progressions, scales, keys and modulations]]==
==[[Staff_notation|Staff notation]]==
==[[Paradoxical_intervals|Paradoxical intervals]]==


==**__FULL EXPLANATION__:**==
==[[Higher_primes|Higher primes]]==
==[[7-limit interval names]]==  
[[Category:color_notation]]
==[[Note names]]==
[[Category:ji]]
==[[Chord names]]==
[[Category:notation]]
==[[Chord progressions, scales, keys and modulations]]==
[[Category:todo:add_examples]]
==[[Staff notation]]==
==[[Paradoxical intervals]]==
==[[Higher primes]]== </pre></div>
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The following is excerpted from &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/KiteGiedraitis"&gt;Kite's&lt;/a&gt; forthcoming book, &amp;quot;Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice&amp;quot;, available at &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;www.TallKite.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Color notation provides a way to talk about ratios without using numbers, making microtonal music more accessible to people who aren't mathematically inclined. It's designed for just intonation, but like sagittal notation, it can be expanded to cover temperaments. Also, even those who never use JI still generally talk about ratios quite a bit, and this notation can be a useful tool. For example, temperaments can be named after the color of the comma(s) that are tempered out.&lt;br /&gt;
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Notes are named wC, bE♭, etc. Triads are named after their 3rd: Cy, Gb, etc. A y chord is a major chord.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tetrads are named Cyy, Dgr, etc. The last letter refers to either a maj 6th or a min 7th, unless otherwise specified. Here's the main 7-limit chord types:&lt;br /&gt;
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Chord progressions: the root of each chord has a color. C -- Am -- F -- G would be wCy -- yAg -- wFy -- wGy. The I, IV and V chords are assumed to have white roots unless otherwise specified, so Cy -- yAg -- Fy -- Gy. Here's Iyb -- IVyb -- Iyb -- Vyb in B flat:&lt;br /&gt;
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