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are so hard to define. When an artist says to me, 

 " There is a color that sings," I know what he 

 means ; as I do when my friend says of the funeral 

 music in Tristan that "it always hurts her eyes." 

 Musicians compose symphonies in color, and artists 

 paint pictures in symphonies. Musicians and authors 



Arbor in a Salem Garden. 



acknowledge the domination of color and color 

 terms ; a glance at a modern book catalogue will 

 prove it. Stephen Crane and other modern extrem- 

 ists depend upon color to define and describe 

 sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, ideas, vices, virtues, 

 traits, as well as sights. Sulphur-yellow is deemed 



