The connections between music and the visual arts

intensified during the emergence and flowering of

modernism. The Music of Painting explores how artists

sought to translate musical rhythms and structures

into painting, and how musicians developed visual

themes in their compositions. Peter Vergo analyzes

individual pieces of music and works of art, from

Paul Signac's musical seascapes and Richard Wagner's

Tannhäuser to Wassily Kandinsky's abstract paintings

and John Cage's silent piano piece 4'33". The Music of

Painting is an accessible and insightful exploration

of ideas, which studies the many links between the two

disciplines as envisaged not only by visual artists and

musicians but also by critics, writers and philosophers.