Episode 427: Wind Colors

Every note on the grand staff has a different pitch because it vibrates at a different frequency. This happens too with light across the visual spectrum, and we perceive this as different colors. Composers understand this and combine pitch with an instrument's timbre to create musical "color", and thus mood. In this week's episode we explore their creativity in the musical world of color.

A Color Symphony
  Philip Sparke
  Concert Band of the German Armed Forces,
  Christoph Scheibling
Les Couleurs Fauves (Vivid Colors)
  Karel Husa*
  North Texas Wind Symphony,
  Eugene Migliaro Corporon
The Descending Blue
  Daniel French
  Ohio University Wind Symphony,
​  Andrew Trachsel

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*Childhood Memories of Karel Husa, by Mark Morette