ABSTRACT
In India, the depiction of musical sound—and its frequent partner, dance movement—abounds in many media: sculpture and bas-reliefs, pottery, wall paintings and drawings, palm leaves, cloth, paper, prints, and photographs. In some periods, visualized music making has been intimately linked with the related arts of literature, theater, dance, and architecture; it provides a remarkable source for considering the visual items as works of art, the contexts in and for which the art was created, the content of the artistic depiction, and the creators themselves.
