Hearing Color, Seeing Harmony

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This is a Circle of Fifths diagram, specific to C Major, showing the most commonly used chords and their Roman Numerals used in harmonic analysis sized in proportion to their frequency of use in Western Art Music. Colors align with the position of each key, similar to how colors are arrayed in typical color space. Orange is at the top, matching with the key of B-flat, then clockwise around the circle in 12 steps we see Brown for the key of F, Red as the home key of C, Pink for the dominant V, then the three minors lilac for ii, purple for vi, blue for iii. Pale blue is the diminished vii. Teal is unused, then comes four non-diatonic chords that while less frequently used, when they are used in C major the would be the flat II key in green, the flat VI key in olive, the flat major III in Yellow, and finally back to the top we see the flat major VII key in Orange which is B flat.

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