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Human Body, Musical Performance and its Visual Representation throughout History
Turin, Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’
19-21 March 2026
Beyond Corelli: Geminiani and the Instrumental Music of his Time
Lovere (BG), Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
5-7 June 2026
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Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era
edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59).
The figurative arts — or the arts that transcribe the visible —...
Abbonizio, Isabella. Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy: Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation
Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism and Politics, 13).
This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of the role of music within the context of Italian...
Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures
edited by Joan Grimalt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 3).
Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures offers a fresh exploration of musical rhetoric, moving beyond traditional...
Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe
edited by Francesc Cortès and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 60).
During the 19th century, music thrived in a variety of private and...
The Composer-Conductor Figure between the 19th and 20th Centuries
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 61).
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many great musicians served as both composers and conductors,...
In Search of Morton Feldman. A Portrait of the Composer at 100
edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8).
There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists analysis, first through...
Twentieth-Century Music Criticism and Racial Discourses
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 14).
In recent decades, the relationship between music and criticism has been a key...
CALL FOR PAPERS 2026
Intellectual Property and Music in the Theatre
International Conference organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Research Group GRAE-MUSC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Research Group ERASMUSH, Universidad de Oviedo
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Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans
13-15 May...
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Musical Interpretation
organised by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
IAM-Institute for Applied Musicology
International Virtual Conference
19-21 June 2026
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini and the Italian Institute...
Soundscapes of Entertainment: Music at Leisure in the 19th Century
organised by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Educational Sciences
Croatian Musicological Society
Palazzetto Bru Zane
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Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Faculty of...
Beyond the Drawing Room: Women in the Promotion of Music in the Long...
International Conference organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française
IAM-Institute for Applied Musicology
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Lovere (BG), Centro Studi Opera...
The Reception of the Wiener Klassik in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth...
International Conference organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française (Venice)
IAM-Institute for Applied Musicology
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Lovere (BG), Centro Studi...
THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE
Manuscript and Printed Musical Sources
(In collaboration with RISM - Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales)
Below it is possible to find the musical sources owned by the Centro Studi Opera...
The Jan Ladislav Dussek Collection
The Centro Studi possesses a collection of more than 100 sources of works by Jan Ladislav Dussek.
Many of these sources are unique specimens, not...
The Luigi Dallapiccola Collection
The collection comprises a copious list of unpublished sources, acquired over many years by the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini.
It contains 36 letters,...
The Fascist Italy Collection
The Centro Studi provide scholars a huge collection of musical sources, journals, archival and private documents and books referring to the world of music during the...
LAST RELEASE
«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy
edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Studies on Italian Music History, 21), pp. xx + 480, ISBN: 978-2-503-62185-2.
Contents
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of sacred music in Italy from the...
European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings
edited by Charles Edward McGuire, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 56), pp. xii+412, ISBNÂ Â 978-2-503-61861-6.
Contents
As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions – as loci of taste, judgements of one...
Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology
edited by Karen M. Cook, William Gibbons, and Fanny Rebillard, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Science & Technology, 8), pp. xvi+313, ISBN 978-2-503-61865-4.
Contents
This book investigates the global histories of video game sound from the...