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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 
