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Sign up for our monthly email alertsMusic Inspired by Art
A Guide to Recordings
Series: MLA Index and Bibliography Series #30
Co-published with: Music Library Association
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SUBJECTS
Music » Reference
Reference » Art
Library & Information Science » Music Librarianship
Art & Architecture » Reference
Music » Music (General)
Reference » Music
AWARD(S)
ARSC Best Research in General Discography and History of Recorded Sound 2003
REVIEWS
"Anyone sufficiently interested in the wider arts, and wanting to trace influences through available recordings will find this invaluable....This book is impressive in its coverage in terms of artists, composers, geographical spread, timeframe, recorded media (LP, cassette and CD) and musical genres (jazz, punk and rock co-habit cordially with the classical)."
— MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL
DESCRIPTION
This comprehensive reference book, documents the considerable amount of art-inspired music found on commercial and other mass-produced audio recordings published through 1999. Recording formats included in this survey are long-playing phonograph records (33 1/3 RPM), cassette tapes (7 1/2 IPS), and compact discs. Detailed information is provided to aid in purchasing the recordings or accessing them in library and archive collections.
For the purposes of this compilation, "art" is interpreted broadly to include the full range of visual media and all aspects of artist's lives and works. Music has been gathered from classical, jazz, and popular styles, including examples partly inspired by art, music dedicated to artists, works related to incidental writings by artists, compositions inspired by texts about art, and pieces taking their inspiration from artistic movements, genres, museums, or collections.
The data is organized into three sections. The first, an alphabetical listing of visual artists, follows each name with relevant composers in alphabetical order, details of their compositions, and a maximum of five recordings each. The second section lists selected miscellaneous and un-attributed works of architecture, glass, mosaic, paintings/prints, sculpture and unclassified media. Finally, an index of composers provides an additional means of locating citations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Evans is Professor of Music and Director of Library Media at Ferrum College in Virginia. In 1994 the University of Rochester of New York selected him as an NEH Summer Fellow in the area of 20th Century music studies.
