Kite's color notation
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=__**Kite's color notation**__= The following is excerpted from my forthcoming book, "Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice", available at [[@http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.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. ==**__CRASH COURSE__:**== White = 3-limit, yellow = major, green = minor, blue = subminor, red = supermajor. The lattice looks like this: [[image:lattice31.png width="628" height="291"]] Notes are named wC, bE♭, etc. Triads are named Cy, Gb, etc. [[image:lattice62.png width="640" height="138"]] 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"]] 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"]] ==**__FULL EXPLANATION__:**== ==[[7-limit interval names]]== ==[[Note names]]== ==[[Chord names]]== ==[[Chord progressions, scales, keys and modulations]]== ==[[Staff notation]]== ==[[Paradoxical intervals]]== ==[[Higher primes]]==
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<html><head><title>Kite's color notation</title></head><body><!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --><h1 id="toc0"><a name="Kite's color notation"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 --><u><strong>Kite's color notation</strong></u></h1> <br /> The following is excerpted from my forthcoming book, "Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice", available at <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.TallKite.com</a>.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:<h2> --><h2 id="toc1"><a name="Kite's color notation-CRASH COURSE:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 --><strong><u>CRASH COURSE</u>:</strong></h2> White = 3-limit, yellow = major, green = minor, blue = subminor, red = supermajor. The lattice looks like this:<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:20:<img src="/file/view/lattice31.png/537244708/628x291/lattice31.png" alt="" title="" style="height: 291px; width: 628px;" /> --><img src="/file/view/lattice31.png/537244708/628x291/lattice31.png" alt="lattice31.png" title="lattice31.png" style="height: 291px; width: 628px;" /><!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:20 --><br /> <br /> <br /> Notes are named wC, bE♭, etc. Triads are named Cy, Gb, etc.<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:21:<img src="/file/view/lattice62.png/537246086/640x138/lattice62.png" alt="" title="" style="height: 138px; width: 640px;" /> --><img src="/file/view/lattice62.png/537246086/640x138/lattice62.png" alt="lattice62.png" title="lattice62.png" style="height: 138px; width: 640px;" /><!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:21 --><br /> <br /> 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:<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:22:<img src="/file/view/lattice63a.png/537245602/626x561/lattice63a.png" alt="" title="" style="height: 561px; width: 626px;" /> --><img src="/file/view/lattice63a.png/537245602/626x561/lattice63a.png" alt="lattice63a.png" title="lattice63a.png" style="height: 561px; width: 626px;" /><!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:22 --><br /> <br /> 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:<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:23:<img src="/file/view/Notation%20example%201.png/537244734/619x81/Notation%20example%201.png" alt="" title="" style="height: 81px; width: 619px;" /> --><img src="/file/view/Notation%20example%201.png/537244734/619x81/Notation%20example%201.png" alt="Notation example 1.png" title="Notation example 1.png" style="height: 81px; width: 619px;" /><!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:23 --><br /> <br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:<h2> --><h2 id="toc2"><a name="Kite's color notation-FULL EXPLANATION:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 --><strong><u>FULL EXPLANATION</u>:</strong></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:<h2> --><h2 id="toc3"><a name="Kite's color notation-7-limit interval names"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/7-limit%20interval%20names">7-limit interval names</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:<h2> --><h2 id="toc4"><a name="Kite's color notation-Note names"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Note%20names">Note names</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:<h2> --><h2 id="toc5"><a name="Kite's color notation-Chord names"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Chord%20names">Chord names</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:<h2> --><h2 id="toc6"><a name="Kite's color notation-Chord progressions, scales, keys and modulations"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Chord%20progressions%2C%20scales%2C%20keys%20and%20modulations">Chord progressions, scales, keys and modulations</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:<h2> --><h2 id="toc7"><a name="Kite's color notation-Staff notation"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Staff%20notation">Staff notation</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:<h2> --><h2 id="toc8"><a name="Kite's color notation-Paradoxical intervals"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Paradoxical%20intervals">Paradoxical intervals</a></h2> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:<h2> --><h2 id="toc9"><a name="Kite's color notation-Higher primes"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 --><a class="wiki_link" href="/Higher%20primes">Higher primes</a></h2> </body></html>