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Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and The Visual Arts
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Contents
Prelude
1. The Polyphony of Music and Painting
2. Musical Analogies in Theories of Painting
3. The New Paragone Debate: Paradoxes and Contradictions
4. Synaesthesia, Convergence and Correspondence: Yearnings for a Lost Unity
5. Hearing in Colour: The Transformations of a Myth
6. Bach Through the Prism of Painting
7. ‘Comparison Fever’: True or False Friends?
8. Modern Variations on an Ancient Theme: The Music of the Spheres
9. A Survey of Architecture and Music
10. Magister Dixit, or the History of a Misunderstanding
11. The Paradox of Music with Sculpture
Coda
Appendix 1: Friedrich Mahling’s Bibliography, Studies on Synaesthesia, 1635–1926
Appendix 2: Major Multi-media Works and Events, 1861–2006
Appendix 3: Audio-Visual Installations, Utopian Projects and Machines
Appendix 4: Theoretical Works and Manifestos
Appendix 5: Correlations between Notes and Colours
Appendix 6: Multi-Media Exhibitions, 1961–2006
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index