{"id":6776,"date":"2023-04-25T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2023-04-25T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:53:57","slug":"an-experiment-in-the-colours-of-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6776","title":{"rendered":"An experiment in the colours of keys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The relativity of all these key-colour associations was illustrated during a debate on the whole subject organised in London in 1886 by the Journal &#8220;Musical Opinion&#8221;.  That section of the audience that maintained the definite existence of &#8220;key colour&#8221; by which it could aurally identify a key was submitted to a test, a well known piece being played in both G and Ab, to which they applied and defended their usual G and Ab associations, maintaining that the transposition had totally changed the key colour.  The meeting broke up in recrimination and disorder on its being revealed that the piano possessed a mechanical transposing device, so that whilst those present had <em>seen<\/em> the performer playing in Ab they had <em>heard <\/em>her playing in G major as before.  <\/p><cite>P. A. Scholes, <em>The Oxford Companion to Music<\/em>, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1939, pp. 183-184, cited in J Powell &amp; N Dibben, &#8220;Key-Mood Association: A Self Perpetuating Myth&#8221;, <em>Musicae Scientiae<\/em>, vol. 9., 2005, pp. 289-311., 10.1177\/102986490500900208, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/258173253_Key-Mood_Association_A_Self_Perpetuating_Myth\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/258173253_Key-Mood_Association_A_Self_Perpetuating_Myth (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/258173253_Key-Mood_Association_A_Self_Perpetuating_Myth<\/a> (accessed 25 April 2023).  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relativity of all these key-colour associations was illustrated during a debate on the whole subject organised in London in 1886 by the Journal &#8220;Musical Opinion&#8221;. That section of the audience that maintained the definite existence of &#8220;key colour&#8221; by which it could aurally identify a key was submitted to a test, a well known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-facts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}