Visualizing Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) - Softcover

Isaacson, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253064732 ISBN 13: 9780253064738

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2023

Synopsis

To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?

Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By explaining the history of music visualizations through the lens of human perception and cognition, Isaacson offers a guide to understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to create excellent images of their own. Illustrated with over 300 diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and jazz, folk, and popular music, Visualizing Music explores the decisions made around image creation.

Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques, Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking differently about design that will help music scholars better understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the ephemeral to material.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Isaacson is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is a faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253064732
• ISBN 13: 9780253064738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424