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Theory
All the knowledge of music becoming visible with the simple color coding system

Chroma - from Greek khrōma - "surface of the body, skin, color of the skin," also used generically for "color"

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Tone - from Greek tonos "vocal pitch, raising of voice, accent, key in music," originally "a stretching, tightening, taut string".

Welcome to the main research hub for establishing the Chromatone interpretation of basic and profound music theory concepts.

We start from the very beginning - the physical world around us and the ways we can perceive and interpret it. What is Light and Color and how do we see it? What is Sound and how do we hear it? This gives us the firm foundation for building more and more intricate structures on top of it.

Some sounds are more musical than others and we soon find the importance of their frequency profile. Notes are born from distinguishing particular sound pitches. And then all the combinations arise.

Two notes form Intervals and three or more of them from Chords. If there's too many sounds to be played simultaneously, but still they have pleasant relations to one another, we talk about Scales.

Then we start organizing all these sound structures in time based on Rhythm and dive deep into Harmony and Melody that evolve naturally to the whole Composition level.

There's quite a deep research here, and there's more External resources to explore for those, who needs to learn even more about music theory themselves.