Music and Visual Art

In this book the arts are perceived from aninterdisciplinary dimensions (music visual artmedia and psychology).Interdisciplinary study hasbeen a significant strategy in teaching and learningnowadays.The inclusion of the arts is reflected inthe curriculum in both primary and tertiary education. The major research problems in this book are: (1)What are the common elements in music and the visualarts? (2) Do people make correspondences betweenmusic and painting? (3) How do we define the role ofmusic and its adaptability in linking with otherexpressive forms in contemporary education? Theentire book serves to redefine the value anduniqueness of the arts in the holistic development ofan individual. The significance of this book lies in using a sensoryperspective to explore the 'multi-nature' of thearts.Sensory qualities such as 'brightness''intensity' and 'line' are used as vocabularies tointerpret art perception. The facets in music andvisual art are illustrated and analyzed by theartworks and compositions of the ImpressionistsExpressionists and through mass media Japaneseanimation etc.