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When, how, where, does a mark become a musical note? What alchemy occurs to transform a symbol into sound: a song; a symphony; a chorus? Music is interwoven into the fabric of our lives. We listen to it, some of us play it, but throughout history, humans have also attempted to capture it visually, from the musical images of Ancient Sumer, to Frozen's Elsa standing on the side of a mountain, her voice making crystals in the air. In this startlingly original history of music, Eleanor Chan takes us on a journey through sound that encompasses the 35,000-year-old flute found in a German cave, Kandinsky's kaleidoscopic paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and haute couture. Classically trained musician and art historian Dr. Eleanor Chan opens up a world of sound and vision, exploring different ways to think about listening and seeing. Ultimately, this book asks the listener what it is, and what it might mean, to truly see music.

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Eleanor Chan grew up in Brighton & Hove, and is currently a research fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. She has studied at the University of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Doshisha, Sheffield, and Manchester, and held fellowships with the Leverhulme Trust, Society for Renaissance Studies, Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, and the Renaissance Society of America. She is the author of Mathematics and the Craft of Thought and Syrene Sounds: False Relations in the English Renaissance; her first non-fiction picture book for children, Art is Everywhere, was published by Big Picture Press in 2022. Chan is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Nancy Wu has done voice-over animation and narrated audiobooks since 2004. A New York theater, TV, and film actor, she has won multiple Library Journal and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and recorded in studios all over the world-from Italy to Switzerland to Thailand. Narrating across genres, she is known for varied character voices and bringing stories vividly to life. Born and raised in West Virginia, she now makes her home in Boulder, Colorado, as an avid yoga practitioner and rock climber. Her television/film credits include the Law & Order franchise, All My Children, the Oscar-nominated film Frozen River, and the Nickelodeon series Three Delivery. She studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City and holds a master's degree in human rights. James Patton Rogers is the executive director of the Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University and the NATO country director of the Full Spectrum Drone Warfare project (NATO SPS).

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