Goethe carries out a lot of work studying afterimage of complimentary colour and how the placing of colours on different coloured grounds changes our perception of the colour.
Acrimbaoldo unusually equated darkness with high-pitched sounds. He was interested in the concept of a three-dimensional colour space but was unable to make much progress with this.
In 1669, Newton argued for a 'musical' division of the spectrum of white light. His first scale of 11 colours was reduced to 5 'more prominent colours', to which he added orange and indigo to make the parts more elegantly proportioned to one another.
Newton's musical colours disc
Newton, in his book, Optiks, suggested that the perceived harmonies of sound and colour might be related to their both being vibratory phenomena. This gave a new lease of life to the ancient belief in universal harmony. The prototype machine, used coloured strips of paper, which rose above the cover of the harpsichord, and seemed to be in use by 1730. Newton also tried candles and lanterns with coloured glass but the idea was ahead of the technology available at the time.
Castell's ocular harpsichord
Overall, I believe that there is a link between colour and emotion, and that you can express emotion through a certain colour, for example, red could mean danger; yellow, could mean happy etc. I think this is an important part of illustration (especially children's illustration); finding the right colour to express what you are trying to get across to your audience, and I think I need to focus a lot more on this in my work. However, I am not so certain that there is a strong a link between music and colour, I suppose that there is some sort of link between happy music and a happy colour, and then a sad music, and sad colour. It is just my personal opinion, that the link between music and colour is not as strong as the link between emotion and colour in artwork.
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