The (Syn)Aesthetics of Modernism is an examination of interactions between music and the visual arts in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It aims to demonstrate how a synaesthetic view of the arts might countenance a fresh historical model and a more inclusive definition of musical modernism. The interdisciplinary relationships considered inspire a fundamental reassessment of the progression of European art music in the early 1900s. An appraisal of the manifold understandings of modernism precedes two substantial case studies. Schoenberg and Satie have been chosen for the contrast...