The use of colours to represent notes is very popular in the classroom and teaching studio.
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What colour does your day feel like?
What key are your favourite pieces today?
Do they match?
I have a particular set of colours I use for keys.
C is red, D is orange, E is yellow, F is green, G is blue, A is purple and B is pink. These colours are used throughout the Triquetrae Music Programmes.
I found this set of major and minor key colours on Facebook, what do you think? Do these colours fit the combined keys of a scale?
Musical Key Colours and Characteristics.
C Major - The key of childhood. Innocently happy and as pure as an angel. It's colour is azure.
A Minor - A gentle, soothing key full of sadness. Looking out the window on a rainy day. It's colour is turquoise.
G Major - Gentle, warm, lyrical, tender, and calm. Friendship, family, and happily ever after. The key of peace. It's colour is green.
E Minor - A mysterious, nocturnal sort of key. Moonlight through the pines on a cool night. It's colour is dark, pine green.
D Major - The key of celebration. It is a happy key full of sunshine and optimism. It's colour is yellow.
B Minor - The key of patience. Calm acceptance of fate without complaint, contemplative and even a little sad. It's color is dark yellow.
A Major - The key of youth and innocent young love. It is a bright and cheery key full of energy. It's colour is orange.
F# Minor - A desperate key. Full of anxiety and worry. Thinking about the future. Its colour is purple.
E Major - A warm, energetic key full of life and strength. Its colour is orange.
C# Minor - Serious, solemn, mystical and contemplative. A moonlit night in October. Its colour is dark orange
B Major - A strong key full of passion. Can express a variety of emotions. It's colour is purple.
G# Minor - A serious, solemn, and sober key. Accepting the bitter truth. Its colour is dark brown.
Gb Major - The key of love. Pink skies, purple clouds, Valentine's Day. Its colour is pink.
D# Minor - A key full of sadness, betrayal, tears of agony, and a capacity for rage. Its colour is light brown.
Db Major - A warm and comforting key, but also very sad and sorrowful. Recovering over a great loss. Its colour is vermilion red.
Bb Minor - The key of the grave. Funereal, sorrowful, and depressing. It's colour is black.
Ab Major - Like Db Major, it is a very sad key, but also very warm. It's colour is crimson red.
F Minor - The key of mystery. A noir film in black and white or a misty city by night. Its colour is maroon.
Eb Major - The key of masculinity. Strong, dependable, and loyal. Its colour is ultramarine blue.
C Minor - An innocently sad key. A grey, cloudy afternoon in November. It's colour is gray.
Bb Major - The key of national pride. A hopeful and optimistic key. It's colour is green.
G Minor - A calm but very sad key. A cold, windy day at the seaside. It's colour is light blue.
F Major - The key of nature and femininity. Calm, sweet and childlike. Its colour is scarlet red.
D Minor - An autumnal key. Gloomy and depressing. A misty morning in October. It's colour is mauve.
What do you think?.
Shared from the group Pianists and Piano Lovers, posted by Adorjan Tomlinson on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/2371398774/
The following videos and worksheets are from the Triquetrae MusiKIDS programme, but they are relevant to anyone interested in colours and music. Just presented in a child like way.
Colour is an element of art. Pitch is an element of music. Art is visual music and music is melodic art. Each note is represented as a colour.
![]() | Orange is between red and yellow. D is between C and E. | TQGA.L1.CLCG.A12-5-2 .pdf Download PDF • 513KB |
![]() | Purple is between red and blue. A/ B is between C and G. | TQGA.L1.CLCG.A12-5 .pdf Download PDF • 528KB |
![]() | Green is between yellow and blue. F is between E and G. | TQGA.L1.CLCG.A12-5-3 .pdf Download PDF • 552KB |