
The Arts Entwined
Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Marsha L. Morton(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-138-98757-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation utpictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art. Also includes 17 musical examples.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume offers an exemplary set of essays-an informative, unified and intellectually energetic collection." -- MLA Notes"Interesting and scholarly..." -- R. Pitts, Choice , McLennan Community College
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-98757-9 (9781138987579)
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The Arts Entwined
Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century
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The Arts Entwined
Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century
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The Arts Entwined
Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century
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Content
This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation ut pictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art.