Musical Iconography
Musical iconography is concerned with the depiction of music in the visual arts. It is a discipline in its own right, covering the illustration of musicians, instruments, music-making, and the use of musical imagery.
See for example
Tilman Seebass. "Iconography." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press.
Databases and Journals
A major online resource for musical iconography. It is a database with links to examples of musical iconography. Fully searchable across key fields: titles, artists, people as subjects, subject keywords, instruments, schools, and locations.
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- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: the main indexing and abstracting resource for articles about musical iconography, including contemporary practice. For example: jazz iconography, and studies of iconography in relation to popular music.
- RidIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography: the art holdings of particular museums and galleries compiled in print volumes.
- Imago Musicae. Official organ of the International Repertory of Musical Iconography.
- Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography.
Books
The University of Melbourne Library Catalogue uses the following subject headings:
Note some titles are located in the Baillieu Library, eg Picturing performance : the iconography of the performing arts in concept and practice.
- Shepherd, Tim and Anne Leonard (2014). The Routledge companion to music and visual culture New York: Routledge.
- Brown, Howard Mayer (1972). Musical Iconography: A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art before 1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Gonzalez, Sara (2013). The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and her Territories. London: Pickering & Chatto.
- Heck, Thomas F (1999). Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.
- Nelson, Kathleen (2011). Cathedral, City and Cloister: Essays on Manuscripts, Music and Art in Old and New Worlds. Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music.
- Shephard, Tim (2013). The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture. Hoboken; Taylor and Francis.
- Slim, H Colin (2002). Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography. Burlington: Ashgate.
- Hourihane, Colum (2017). The Routledge companion to medieval iconography. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
- Bellia, Angela and Clemente Marconi (2016). Musicians in ancient coroplastic art: Iconography, ritual contexts, and functions. Pisa Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali.
- Illiano, Roberto (2016). Music and figurative arts in the twentieth century. Turnhout Brepols.
- Boynton, Susan and Diane J Reilly (2016). Resounding images: Medieval intersections of art, music, and sound. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.