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Life & fun · November 5, 2025

See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore

I designed a relative piano-roll-based music notation. I used 12 colored arranged in a specific way to make visible the main effects and oppositions of Western tonal harmony. The tonic is always white, so a manual annotation/interpretation is required for each MIDI file. All chords are flags of three to four colors. Minor mode is darker, major mode is lighter. Colors are arranged in thirds. I sorted the pieces from simple complex harmony. I also wrote a bit of text to explain what you may see. There's also a corpus of structures: hyperlinks of tags that allow you to find similar…

See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore launched on November 5, 2025 with 129 votes, #228 of 9,795 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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This tool presents classical and popular music compositions using a color-based notation system designed to reveal harmonic structures. Each of the 12 colors represents a pitch class, with the tonic always shown in white, while major and minor modes use lighter and darker shades respectively. Chords appear as colored flags, making progressions visually recognizable without requiring traditional analysis. The platform includes over 3,000 scored pieces organized by harmonic complexity, along with a tagging system for finding similar harmonic patterns. It is intended for musicians and music students seeking to understand and memorize chord relationships visually.

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I designed a relative piano-roll-based music notation. I used 12 colored arranged in a specific way to make visible the main effects and oppositions of Western tonal harmony. The tonic is always white, so a manual annotation/interpretation is required for each MIDI file. All chords are flags of three to four…

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