Late eighteenth-century music and visual culture / edited by Cliff Eisen & Alan Davison

• Superior document: Music and visual cultures volume 1
• HerausgeberIn: Eisen, Cliff 1952-; Davison, Alan ca. 20. Jh.
• Place / Publishing House: Turnhout : Brepols, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Music and visual cultures volume 1
• Classification: 24.50 - Historische Musikwissenschaft
• Physical Description: V, 231 Seiten; Illustrationen, Faksimile, Notenbeispiele; 28 cm

The late eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing exchange between music and visual art which was expressed in the creative as well as commercial cultures of the time. Nevertheless, there has been relatively little research to actively consider and thoroughly examine the symbiotic relationship between looking and listening during the period. 0In this volume, nine prominent scholars employ a set of interdisciplinary methodological tools in order to come to a comprehensive understanding of the rich tapestry of eighteenth-century musical taste, performance, consumption and aesthetics. While the link between visual material and musicological study lies at the heart of the research presented in this collection of essays, the importance of the textual element, as it denoted the process of thinking about music and the various ways in which that was symbolically and often literally visualized in writing and print culture, is also closely examined