The Art of music is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and the musical, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, and presents new scholarship on less well-known examples in the arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, from antique pottery to contemporary video and sound art. Essays consider key works and themes such as synesthesia and other formal and theoretical crossovers, motifs of musicians, and performative and ritual functions of music, musical instruments, and art. With more than 250 color images illustrating works of art in diverse traditions, The Art of music offers enriching reading for scholars and general audiences alike

• The art of music : a complex art / Simon Shaw-Miller
• Richard Leppert
• Marika Sardar
• Patrick Coleman
• James Grebl
• Christina Yu Yu
• Michael A. Brown
• Sandra Benito
• Patrick Coleman
• Gemma Rodrigues
• Ariel Plotek
• Patrick Coleman A sound world seen / Painting the sounds of music : a study of Indian ragamala images / Music, said and scene : encounters in metaphor, theory and performance / The power of music in Classical myth and art / Music and the arts in East Asia / Portraits, music and Enlightenment in the Atlantic world / Seeing music in Latin America / Echoes of a dark and deep unity : exchange, collaboration and innovation / The art of music in Africa / From Parsifal to Parade : the attributes of music in the modern era / Going electric : technology and the musical body /