of the colours
(heraldry, of a wreath, torse, etc) Having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.
Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting. Honoré de Balzac
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. Plato