SIXTY FOUR SQUARES OF THE LAMBDOMA DIAGRAM COLORED ACCORDING TO COLOR TONE THEORIES

The upper horizontal set of colored squares depicts the overtone series in music. When a string is struck other harmonies occur at the same time. The order of these harmonics are in great leaps at the beginning, an octave first and then a fifth, another octave and then a third, then a minor sixth, and finally a scale of whole tones to half tones.
The verticals always follow the theoretical undertones series. which instead of being octave to fifth, becomes octave to fourth, octave, sixth, fourth, second, then a descending whole tone to half tone scale, as contrasted with the ascending overtone scale.
The overtone scale also would diminish in a special sense, while the undertone would lengthen in a special sense. The diagonal colors all represent the same tone the same octave range, a constant, and also a hypotenuse of a right triangle. The upper half of the square cut by its diagonal would be in the upper octaves, while the lower half would be in the lower octaves. Also the upper half would represent a contraction while the lower half would represent an expansion.
As a tone is struck, each tone beginning from its point on the diagonal shifts a space back on the horizontal, and shifts a space on the vertical. This already creates paradoxical situation. Rays are visibly emanating from the source of the sound. On one side, the overtone side, the colors go from red to orange to yellow to green to blue to purple to red. On the other side, the undertone part, the colors go from lavender to blue to green to yellow to orange to red when they again begin to fluctuate widely into complementaries or fifths musically.

 


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