The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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. Also includes 17 musical examples. This Collection Of Essays By Musicologists And Art Historians Explores The Reciprocal Influences Between Music And Painting During The Nineteenth Century. From The Other Side : An Introduction / Marsha L. Morton -- The New Paragone : Paradoxes And Contradictions Of Pictorial Musicalism / Philippe Junod -- Seeing Music : Visuality In The Friendship Of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe And Carl Friedrich Zelter / Stephanie Campbell -- Fingal's Cave And Ossian's Dream : Music, Image, And Phantasmagoric Audition / Thomas S. Grey -- Painted Responses To Music : The Landscapes Of Corot And Monet / Kermit Swiler Champa -- In The Toils Of Queen Omphale : Saint-saëns's Painterly Refiguration Of The Symphonic Poem / Carlo Caballero -- Painting Around The Piano : Fantin-latour, Wagnerism, And The Musical In Art / Lisa Norris -- Van Gogh In Nuenen And Paris : The Origins Of A Musical Paradigm For Painting / Peter L. Schmunk -- Music To Our Ear? : Munch's Scream And Romantic Music Theory / Elizabeth Prelinger. Edited By Marsha L. Morton And Peter L. Schmunk. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. Also includes 17 musical examples. In 1859, the inaugural issue of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts presented as its lead article an essay with a provocative title: "Ut pictura musica," or "As with music, so with painting."