In my last blog, I mentioned that I have been conducting a bit of research related to my book. Much of this research involves investigating the connections between music and visual art. Some individuals who have made these connections have suggested that colors may be a valuable tool in learning musical intervals. One female educator at the famous Bauhaus school, Gertrud Grunow, correlated pitches with color using a wheel of twelve divisions. She believed that perceiving color would aid music students in increasing their aural abilities. While Grunow approached this concept from a music background, more recently Katherine Lubar made similar correlations through her background as a painter and color theorist. Specifically, Lubar relates the twelve hues of the color wheel to the twelve interval c...
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