A Color Notation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Color Notation by Albert Henry Munsell: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 3:37:30 running time and a link to listen.
A Color Notation, credited to Albert Henry Munsell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Color Notation by Albert Henry Munsell. Read in English by Availle A Color Notation is a method developed by H. A. Munsell in order to produce a unified system of color classification. The system identifies three color dimensions hue (color name), value (lightness), and chroma (color purity) and was the first to base the outcome on a scientifically rigorous method of testing humans' color vision. The three dimensions are depicted on a color sphere with pure hue changing around the equator, value changing from light to dark from the north to the south pole, and choma varying on the inside of the sphere towards the neutral grey of the north-south axis. The Munsell system is still widely used today, for example to define skin and hair colors for forensic pathology, for matching soil colors, or for the selection of shades for dental restorations. (Summary by Availle).
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Color Notation
- Author credits: Albert Henry Munsell
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 3:37:30
Catalogue topics
- nonfiction
- art
- education
- painting
- value
- munsell color system
- hue
- chroma
Track guide
- 00 - Preface and Introduction — 5:50
- 01 - Part I I: Color Names — 16:04
- 02 - Appendix 1 — 4:10
- 03 - II: Color Qualities — 26:47
- 04 - Appendix 2 — 2:25
- 05 - III: Color Mixture — 29:35
- 06 - Appendix 3 — 6:58
- 07 - IV: Prismatic Colors — 12:12
- 08 - Appendix 4 — 14:50
- 09 - V: The Pigment Color Sphere — 22:25
- 10 - Appendix 5 — 3:18
- 11 - VI: Color Notation — 11:34
- 12 - VII: Color Harmony — 23:42
- 13 - Part II: A Color System and Course of Study — 21:57
- 14 - Glossary of Color Terms — 15:42
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