... that despite modernism's advocacy of media purity and separation, the boundaries between art and music were permeable at this time, as they have been throughout history. The author begins by discussing the place of Wagner's music and ideas at the time of the birth of modernism, presenting Wagner's aesthetic...

...This chapter examines issues in relation to interdisciplinary study and aims to differentiate inter- from cross- and multidisciplinary research concerning the connection between art and music. It analyzes philosopher Jerrold Levinson's discussion of hybridity into different categories and argues...