Another artist who applied the musical scale to colour for painters was RA Wilson ARCA (Lond). After making a circle out of the spectrum by joining the ends in the area of the purples, he placed over this a rotatind disk with circular holes in the positions of the Tonic, SuperTonic, Mediant, SubDominant, Dominant, SuperDominant and Leading Note. In this way he was also able to point out on his disk, Dyads, Triads, and Heptads. He also gave a chart of his findings, as follows:

Hue	Dominant Harmonic	Mediant or Connecting Note	Pigment Match	Equivalent in Nature	Quality
Red	Blue-Green	Yellow	Crimson Alizarin	Ruby Red	Warm
Red-Orange	Blue	Yellow-Green	Crimson & Vermillion	Ripe Cherry	Warm
Orange	Blue-Violet	Green	Orange Vermillion	Eastern Poppy	Warm
Yellow-Orange	Violet	Blue-Green	Orange Cadmium	Ripe Fruit	Warm
Yellow	Red-Violet	Blue	Pale Cadmium	Buttercup	Warm
Yellow-Green	Red	Blue Violet	Emerald Green and Aureolin	Unripe Apple	Warm
Green	Red-Orange	Violet	Viridian Chromium Oxide	Baize Green	Cool
Blue-Green	Orange	Red-Violet	Prussian Blue Viridian	Peacock	Cool
Blue	Yellow-Orange	Red	Sky Cobalt Blue	13th C. Stained Glass	Cool
Blue-Violet	Yellow	Red-Orange	Ultramarine Blue	Lapis Lazuli	Cool
Violet	Yellow-Green	Orange	Ultramarine and Mineral	Violet Bluest Wild Wood Violets	Cool
Red Violet	Green	Yellow-Orange	Mineral Violet and Crimson	Royal Purple	Cool

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