hi all,

School bus orange

I wondered that myself. This would be fun being a classical musican. Let's see... Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor. I wonder what delicious color that would evoke!

John

Hej John,
Green I think.
Actually music to me is shapes more than colors. Bach is all cubes built into formal structures, Hayden and Vivaldi, are graph paper landscapes of square fields on gentle hills.
I prefer square music.

I like it! B-flat minor is a one of the sweet minor keys that is a deeper feeling then it's relative major D-flat, which is one of the very sweet sounding major keys that makes me think of quiet evenings and other soft things. Chopin's Nocturne No. 8, Op. 27 No. 2. is pure heaven for me.

I like your graphical picture of the music. You must listen to a lot of Baroque music, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, etc. I play a lot of this as well on my clavichord, and lately have been playing some of the suites from Purcell and Croft.

What do you see when you hear Beethoven. Like his Emperor Concerto (heaven), which is in E-flat major, whichi of course is from a much later period?

John

I at one time managed a small business office and filed stuff under a color system....red for outstanding invoices, yellow for misc expenses etc. The accountant nearly lost his mind! I still file things under color. I buy the paks of mixed colors file folders. My writing stuff is all under yellow, Pd stuff is filed under blue, My personal records etc are all in pink folders ...

I wondered also why it would be considered a "disorder".

It must be coming from the creative side of our brains. Arn't we an intersting bunch?

good to hear from you Birte...I was just thinking the other day I hadn't seen you post for awhile. I haven't been all that diligent either so I thought perhaps it was just me.

John,
Alas, I have trouble with sound. Even the most wonderful music becomes noise to me quite soon. I have a great need for silence. I don't hear noise in my head, but PD seems to make me FEEL noise inside my head. Chaotic noise. As I describe it - it sounds both daft and sinister - I don't know if it is the medicine or the PD or a family thing... my father's family is fond of silence.
So I have not heard any Beethoven for so long that I have no recollection of any shape it may have to me.

It is so very interesting, this, and I am so disappointed that I've hit this wall. Maybe I will put on some music and see what I see.
Bach, Hayden and Vivaldi gets played over Christmas by my children (CDs, not by themselves) so that music is fresh in my mind.
And my knowledge of music is very .. very... limited.

Really frustrating...... Maybe Carey or Rosebud can step in with their music shapes or colors.

birte

Over at "Patientslikeme", a PWP named "kaylee" posted:

I worked on a PD survey last year. This is one of the questions we asked. Of the 73 who repsonded this is the results of color question.

Blue 35
Green 19
Purple 9
Red 6
Pink 2
Yellow 2

My favourite colour is blue too. Very strongly blue.

But what is the answer in general if asked of non PD sufferers, maybe it would still be blue!

Chris

And harder than I would have thought to find an answer to. It does seem to be blue but at about half the rate here. However, that is weak data because it was the color popularity for web sites.

And no connection to eye color?

I don't mean the obvious that blue eyed people like the color blue, I mean that the mix of iris colors we inherit may put a slant on the way we see colors.

Unless it has to do with emotions and /or early environment or brain chemicals, or brain waves.... fun to speculate.

I know that we see the same color differently, just as people's taste buds don't react exactly like other people's taste buds to the taste of foods.

birte