ABSTRACT
That an image of musical performance can evoke within us a sense of the sonorous, even a sense of movement and the tactile, is a truism whose significance is both highlighted and obscured by the temptation to search for poetic metaphors. While rhetorical devices are significant in themselves as forms of expression, what is of particular interest for the purpose of this chapter is that they are deeply suggestive of the importance of images in our responses to, and engagement with, music. For the scholar, visual representations of music-making offer a vast repository for researching the role of music in society, the history of performance practices, and the interconnections between music and visual culture.
