TONE AND COLOUR THEORIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1756, 22 May 1913, Page 2

TONE AND COLOUR THEORIES.

An interesting lecture was recently given in Paris by Dr. Brown landone upon the relations between tone and colour,. and the effect of colour upon human beings. It was interesting to hear that red to the maximum of work in the shortest timl?, but inclines to exhaust both Blind and body; that yellow is the emotional colour; that green, with yellow in it,\is the colour that allows one to work longer and. with less fatigue than any other; and that blue is the most restful.. Dr. Landono suggested that, sub-consciously perhaps, tho world had acted upon these, laws. The priests of power, in religion had always worn red, the priests of lovo had adopted yellow, kings and princes had united yellow with purple, and Naturo made her walls of green. The lecturer a]=o told some interesting facts about tone. Ho said that when Wagner, was searching for tho corresponding music for waterfalls, he discovered that only the u tuning fork vibrated. Dr. Landone doubted if he had taken enough tuning forks with him when he made his tests, so lie set out with several, but came home with the samo result. He also discovered that almost every town, noise causes only the G tuning fork to answer, that actors havo found 6 to be the arresting note, that sellers of wares have experienced the same tiling. Finally, he concluded that G must bo to tono wiint white is to colour. AJI tho colours of tho prism, when blended, produce white, aud after inventing a special arrangement which allowed lum to strike nil the notes of an octave on thr. piano as one' note. Dr. Landone found, that the only tuning fork which vibrated was G.