3The question of form in visual music

Maura McDonnell

Introduction

The question of form in visual music is complex because artistic impulses, styles and formal characteristics from visual art and music are jointly combined in an artistic fashion that is not reducible simply to either visual form, musical form, or to a oneto-one correspondence. The category of visual music itself is the first formal and structural element of visual music. This category refers to the totality of a visual music art as a unique form of art-making. It also refers to the major principle operating in the art, which is the unity of visual art and music that is expressed by artists and that takes place in the temporal unfolding of the visual music in the work of ...

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