Comparisons between music and painting have been common since the Renaissance. 'I grade the things before the eye as the musician grades the sounds that meet his ear' said Leonardo, while Kandinsky confessed in his first letter to Schoenberg that 'The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my paintings.' Are these comparisons (and those that other people have drawn between painting and music) plausible and technically demonstrable? Do painters and musicians compose their works in similar ways? 'Composing in Unison' is intended to explore this kind of questions. About half of the text deals with the realities of artistic perception and is aimed at clarifying some general issues like, for example, the ways in which the concept of space contributes to the creation of musical and visual compositions. The other half is a discussion of motivic development, tonality, perspective, harmony, colour, rhythm and drawing, and of particular works that are subjected to close analysis, and compared.

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