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This thoughtful and provocative book explores the relationship between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the modernist period. Reassessing the work of composers and artists such as Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Josef Matthias Hauer, and John Cage, Simon Shaw-Miller argues that despite modernism's advocacy of media purity and separation, the boundaries between art and music were permeable at this time, as they have been throughout history.Shaw-Miller begins by discussing the place of Wagner's music and ideas at the time of the birth of modernism, presenting Wagner's aesthetic of the Gesamtkunstwerk as an alternative paradigm for modernist art. He goes on to analyze Picasso's use of musical subjects in his cubist works and Klee's adoption of music and the issue of temporality in his paintings and drawings. He concludes with the radical aesthetic of Cage, the silencing of sound, and the promotion of intermediality in the work of Fluxus artists. Through these fascinating examples, Shaw-Miller raises questions about both art and music history that will be of interest to students of both disciplines.

Art and music --- Music and art --- Music --- History

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"After Sound examines contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. Coining the term "critical music," it examines a diverse collection of art projects which intervene into specific political and philosophical conflicts by exploring music's unique historical forms"--

Sound in art. --- Silence in art. --- Art and music. --- Music --- Social aspects. --- Music and society --- Music and art

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This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the twentieth century, identifying the shared sources of inspiration.

Art and music. --- Jazz in art. --- Music --- Art, Modern --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Modernism (Art) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists) --- Music and art --- History and criticism.

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Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music-highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original-and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.

Music --- Popular music and art music. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Bruce Springsteen. --- George Frideric Handel. --- Gustav Mahler. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- good music. --- jazz. --- marginalized music. --- progressive rock. --- the Beatles. --- valuing music.

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This anthology examines the various facets of video game music. Contributors from the fields of science and practice document its historical development, discuss the music’s composition techniques, interactivity and function as well as attending to its performative aspects.

Social sciences. --- Video game music. --- Video games. --- Video game music --- Journalism & Communications --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc. --- Communication & Mass Media --- History and criticism --- Art and music --- History and criticism. --- Music and art --- Communication. --- Social Sciences. --- Communication Studies. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization