Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century

edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 14), pp. x+494, ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1.

This volume investigates the figure of Luigi Cherubini, with the aim of providing a picture of the various faces that a composer and …

Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer

edited by Fabio Morabito and Louise Bernard de Raymond, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2020 (Quaderni Clementiani, 5), pp. 360, ISBN: 978-88-8109-522-3.

Essays by Louise Benrard de Raymond, Muriel Boulan, Thomas Christensen, Étienne Jardin, Ellen Lockhart, Fabio Morabito, William O’Hara, Alban …

Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330

edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 40), pp. xviii+318, ISBN: 978-2-503-59099-8.

The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and proliferation of a diverse and unprecedented outpouring of musical activity known as the ars antiqua…

The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti

edited by Daniela Tortora, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Contemporary Composers, 3), pp. xxiv+604, ISBN: 978-2-503-58952-7.

The première of Sylvano Bussotti’s La Passion selon Sade occurred fifty years ago in Palermo during the fifth edition of “Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica” (5 September …

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 39), pp. xiv+528, ISBN: 978-2-503-58951-0.

In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: «Die bildende Kunst in ihrer höchsten Vollendung muss Musik werden und uns durch unmittelbare sinnliche Gegenwart rühren» (Schiller, Über die ästhetische …

François De Médicis, La maturation artistique de Debussy dans son contexte historique (1884-1902)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 38), pp. xx+814, ISBN: 978-2-503-58950-3

This work is centered on the figure of Claude Debussy in the years between 1884 and 1902 — from the moment he captured the Prix de Rome to the premiere …

Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy

edited by Arnold Jacobshagen, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 13), ISBN: 978-2-503-58820-9, pp. xiv+420.

This volume reflects on Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) and the international reception of his work 150 years after his death.

Rossini was the most …

Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)

edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 37), pp. xiv+322, ISBN: 978-2-503-58815-5.

The development of music publishing in the final years of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century had a decisive and far-reaching influence on …

Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)

completed, revised and edited by Sybille Werner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 36), pp. xviii+810, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8.

This long awaited revised volume I completes Henry-Louis de La Grange’s four-volume English language biography of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), …

Anna G. Piotrowska, From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study of the Musical Rhapsody

Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 41), pp. xxii+248, ISBN 978-2-503-59487-3.

This volume examines the concept of rhapsody through a broad lens. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning(s) of the term itself, it then traces the history and reception of …

Haydn’s Last Creative Period

edited by Federico Gon, Turnhout Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 42), pp. xiv+366, ISBN 978-2-503-59488-0.

This volume focuses on one of the most crucial parts of Haydn’s career—a  key era in which the experiments of the 1770s arrived at the consolidation …

Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Minor Forms of Musical Theatre in the 18thand 19thCentury

edited by María Encina Cortizo and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 43).

This volume addresses the complex variety of stage works with sung and spoken sections, such as vaudeville, singspiel, opéra-comique, zarzuela or operetta …

Music Patronage in Italy

During the Renaissance and throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, musical production is linked to patronage. There are essentially two types of patronage. …

Franck Jedrzejewski, La musique dodécaphonique et sérielle: une nouvelle histoire

Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Music, Science & Technology, 3).

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Arnold Schönberg proposed a new way of composing in his Five Pieces for Piano that proceeded from a “series of 12 tones which have no …

Music, Cinema, and Modernism. The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca and the DAMS/Università di Torino are pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium «Music, Cinema, and Modernism. The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America…

Between Centres and Peripheries. Music in Europe from the French Revolution until WWI (1789-1914)

International Virtual Conference

06-09 May 2021

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, the Research Group ERASMUSH of the University of Oviedo (Spain) and the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française of Venice are pleased …

The Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe

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Brescia, Scuola Diocesana di Musica ‘Santa Cecilia’

10-12 September 2021

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, the Research Group Palma Choralis^® and the Dipartimento di Musica Antica ‘Città di Brescia’ – are …

Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition, Innovation, and Internationalisation

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium «Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between …

The Sound of Empire: Soundscape, Aesthetics and Performance between Ancien régime and Restoration

12-14 November 2021

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The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca and the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 18 – No. 35 – April/October 2020

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 18 – No. 35 – April/October 2020, pp. 172

ARTICLES

Daniel F. Boomhower
Musical Museums of Imaginary Works: Early Collectors of J. S. Bach’s Music and the Formation of Work-Concepts

Francisco Javier Lupiáñez Ruiz
Three …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 34 – October 2019

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 34 – October 2019, pp. 168

ARTICLES

Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer

edited by Fabio Morabito and Louise Bernard de Raymond, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2020 (Quaderni Clementiani, 5), pp. 360, ISBN: 978-88-8109-522-3.

Essays by Louise Benrard de Raymond, Muriel Boulan, Thomas Christensen, Étienne Jardin, Ellen Lockhart, Fabio Morabito, William O’Hara, Alban …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 33 – April 2019

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 33 – April 2019, pp. 118

ARTICLES

Intercambios musicales entre España e Italia en los siglos XVIII y XIX / Gli scambi musicali fra Spagna e Italia nei secoli XVIII e XIX

editado por / a cura di Víctor Sánchez Sánchez, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 11), pp. xiv+516, ISBN: 978-88-8109-513-1.

España e Italia mantuvieron unas fuertes relaciones culturales a lo largo de su historia. El mismo Miguel de …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 32 – October 2018

ARTICLES

Sonatas for Harpsichord or Piano Opp. 7-10

edited by Luca Lévi Sala and Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2018 (Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works, VIII.2).

Muzio Clementi’s Sonatas Opp. 7, 8, 9 and 10 belong to the ‘Viennese’ compositions, originating from the …

Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 31 – April 2018 pp. 128

ARTICLES

Graham Pont
Handel’s Extempore

Erica Buurman
Three Symphonies in One Year? Beethoven’s Sketches of 1812…

Francesco Geminiani – [Opera Omnia – Vol. 14]

Dictionaire harmonique | Dictionarium harmonicum (1756) – Guida Armonica Op. 10 (1756) – A Supplement to the Guida Armonica (1758) – The Harmonical Miscellany (1758)

edited by Richard Maunder and Rudolf Rasch, Bologna 2018 Ut Orpheus Edizioni (GCE 10), ISMN: …

Francesco Geminiani – [Opera Omnia – Vol. 7]

12 Concertos after Corelli’s Sonatas Op. 5 (1726, 1729) (H. 132-143)

edited by Christopher Hogwood and Rudolf Rasch, Bologna 2018 Ut Orpheus Edizioni (GCE 9), ISMN: 979-0-2153-2503-6.

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