The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture is the first comprehensive study in music and visual culture. Over forty essays by contributing scholars in schools of music and art departments throughout the US and UK comprise this sweeping survey. "The editors' expertise...translates into a focus on 18th- and 19th-century cultural audio/visual studies, a familiar concept but handled here in a forward-thinking way, especially in terms of iconography. This book will be a useful comparative text in film studies, composition, and performance arts. Summing Up: Recommended." -- D.A. King, McNally Smith College of Music, CHOICE "The contributions are...impressively representative and diverse." -- Lydia Goehr, The British Journal of Aesthetics "This Companion ought to accompany philosophers of the arts on their journeys." -- Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, British Journal of Aesthetics "The Routledge Companion...seems like an invitation to a critical confrontation between the traditional approaches and the possible new theoretical visions, to building new problematizations and perspectives of the interpretation of music and the visual." --Sanela Nikolic, Journal of Art and Media Studies