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Course description
This course introduces the history of visual music, the exploration of the relationship between music and abstract imagery. Students will investigate this subject from its predecessors to current day-tracing the constantly expanding practices of visual music through painting, cinema, performance, and installation-form intuitive sketch films to complex algorithmic works.
[Source: Registrar, 04/12/2024]; Dist:ART; WCult:W
In the Library's collections
Books on this subject can be found in various places in the library collection. Pay special attention to the location of different resources.
- "visual music"This is a keyword search.
Selected book title(s)
Contemplating art: essays in aesthetics by Call Number: Baker-Berry BH 39 .L492 2006ISBN: 9780199206186Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts--in particular music, film, and literature.
Music: the definitive visual history by Call Number: Baker-Berry ML 160 .M8675 2013ISBN: 9781465414366Produced in association with the Smithsonian and including images from The National Music Museum in South Dakota, Music: The Definitive Visual History guides readers through the progression of music since its prehistoric beginnings, discussing not just Western classical music, but music from all around the world. ...
The Oxford handbook of new audiovisual aesthetics by Call Number: Baker-Berry P 93.4 .O94 2013ISBN: 9780199733866The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics provides powerful ways to understand these changes.Earlier approaches tended to consider sound and music as secondary to image and narrative. These remained popular even as practices from theater, cinema and television migrated across media. However, the traversal, or "remediation," from one medium to another has also provided practitioners and audiences the chance to rewrite the rules of the audiovisual contract.
The Oxford handbook of synesthesia by Call Number: Baker-Berry BF 495 .O84 2013ISBN: 9780199603329Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike.
The Routledge companion to philosophy and music by Call Number: Baker-Berry ML 3800 .R625 2011ISBN: 9780415486033This is a guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music.
Visual music by Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize NX 456 .V55 2005aISBN: 9780500512173The most complete examination of this phenomenon to date, Visual Music features ninety major works of art plus related documentation, focusing on abstract and mixed-media art forms and their connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz and electronica.
Other library resource(s)
The Routledge companion to music and visual culture by Call Number: Baker-Berry ML 3849 .R82 2014ISBN: 9780415629256As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming to the field for the first time as well as a useful source of information for seasoned researchers. This collection of over forty entries, from musicologists and art historians from the US and UK, delineate the key concepts in the field in five parts: ...
Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
You can use a variety of indexes to find relevant articles. You can search a single database such as Film & Television Literature Index, Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC), use a multi-disciplinary index such as Academic Search Complete.
Communication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Call Number: Electronic resourceThis is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
Business source complete by Call Number: Electronic resourceThis index searches a variety of scholarly and popular business publications including the Business of Media.
Academic search complete by Call Number: Electronic resourceA scholarly, interdisciplinary article index and a good starting place for article searching on any subject.
Film & television literature indexCall Number: Electronic resourceThis index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Internet resource(s)
- Center for Visual MusicCenter for Visual Music is a nonprofit film archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media. The Center is commited to the preservation, curation, education, scholarship, and dissemination of the film, performances and other media of this tradition, together with related historical documentation and artwork.
- Visual Music blogA snap shot of sites that document work, artists, filmmakers, composers, musicians, video artists, events that work with the medium of visual and sound.
- Visual Music ArchiveThe Visual Music Archive is a non-institutional and highly subjective collection of inspirational works from the ever expanding field of Visual Music.
Citing and Tracking Your Bibliographic References
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