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Show SingSomsthing Purple The fact that music can bring certain colors to mind has long been recognized by psychologists. Two o them, Henry S. Odbert and Theodore F. Karowski, found that out of 148 college students 39 per cent were able to "see" a color or colors wnile listening to music. Of the number, 53 per cent were able to associate a color and 31 per cent felt a color response. Newton related colors to the diatonic scale in this manner: man-ner: Do, red; re, orange; mi, yellow; fa, green; sol, blue; la, indigo; and si, violet. Attempts have been made to fashion color organs and other devices to express ex-press the correlation of color and music. |