My favorite mantra is "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." This ancient jewel of wisdom is one of the many universal principles that is as true in the arts as in human psychology. In music, one way we can change the way we hear a melody is to transpose it to another key. In painting, we can transpose from the local color to any number of color schemes.
This...
...can be transposed to this...
...or this...
