TAYLOR, Sedley. "Analogy of Colour and Music", in Nature, volume 2, February 24, 1870, in the letters to the editor section, p. 430, with two figures and a table. On the harmony in color and the harmony in music. In the original wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very crisp copy. Fine. $175 In 1875 Taylor published his work on this subject in a book, Sound and Music. According to Cyril Rootham (1920):
“Sound and Music,” was... the earliest general exposition in short compass by a writer competent on both sides of the subject. An event which his characteristic energy rendered prominent was his invention of an apparatus which he named the phoneidoscope. It consisted essentially of a resonant cavity, with an aperture over which a soap-film was stretched: when the operator sang to it a note nearly in unison with the cavity, the aerial vibrations revealed themselves visibly in whirling movement of the coloured striations of the liquid film."--quote via Wiki article on Taylor
Taylor also translated Helmholtz's 1862 sensation of tone, publishing it in 1875.
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