Danish pianist Carsten Dahl uses the liner notes for Painting Music to try to explain the process of creation. "The universe has a sound and rhythm," he says. "Everything moves forward, either ...

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), “The Musicians” (1595), oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 46 5/8 in. (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The aural history of the 16th to 17th century resonates through the ...

You might be familiar with painting by numbers, the books and kits invented and developed in the 1950s to help even novice painters create decent works of art by indicating exactly what colors to use, ...