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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 …
Read More →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 …
Read More →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 …
Read More →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 …
Read More →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 …
Read More →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), …
Read More →Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
edited by José Ignacio Suárez García and Ramón Sobrino Sánchez, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 35), pp. xiv+484, ISBN 978-2-503-58643-4.
This volume deals, from multiple perspectives, with the complex world of European symphonism during the nineteenth century, a period in …
Read More →J. Hirshberg. Tragedy and Lieto Fine in Romantic Opera Seria
Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Studies on Italian Music History, 12), pp. x+266, ISBN: 978-2-503-58642-7.
In a seminal essay Carl Dahlhaus has pointed out that »often it is possible to turn the ending in a different direction without making any difference to …
Read More →Giacinto Scelsi: Music across the Borders
edited by Federico Celestini, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Contemporary Composers, 2), pp. xxx+416, ISBN 978-2-503-58644-1.
The opening of the archive of the Isabella Scelsi Foundation in Rome in 2009 has facilitated new research perspectives on the work and the significance of …
Read More →Twentieth-Century Music and Mathematics
edited by Roberto Illiano, with an Introduction by Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Science and Technology, 1), pp. xxxiv+382, ISBN: 978-2-503-58570-3
Music and mathematics have been connected since ancient times. During the twentieth century, however, many composers consciously started …
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Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330
edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 41).
The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and proliferation of a diverse and unprecedented outpouring of musical activity known as the ars antiqua.
Polyphonic, monophonic, liturgical, …
Read More →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)
This volume investigates the figure of Luigi Cherubini, with the aim of providing a picture of the various faces that a composer and his output could present …
Read More →Anna G. Piotrowska, From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study in Musical Rhapsody
Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 41).
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 the genre and its …
Read More →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 …
Read More →Haydn’s Last Creative Period
edited by Federico Gon, Turnhout Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 42).
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 and definition of new …
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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»…
Read More →Between Centres and Peripheries. Music in Europe from the French Revolution until WWI (1789-1914)
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International Virtual Conference
06-08 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 …
Read More →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 …
Read More →Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition, Innovation, and Internationalisation
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Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
15-17 October 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium …
Read More →The Sound of Empire: Soundscape, Aesthetics and Performance between Ancien régime and Restoration
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Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
12-14 November 2021
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca and the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française of Venice are pleased to invite submissions of …
Read More →Chamber Music 1850-1918
Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
10-12 December 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS
On the occasion of the birth anniversaries of Antonín Dvořák and César Franck, the …
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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
José Aparisi Aparisi, Antonio Ezquerro Esteban
Una obra espuria de Haydn y de cómo se acomodaron a la danza algunas melodías del dramma giocoso L’arbore
Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 33 – April 2019
Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 17 – No. 33 – April 2019, pp. 118
ARTICLES
Piotr Wilk
The Concerto in the Œuvre of Nicola Fiorenza
Giusy De Berardinis
Gaetano Valeri, «esimio armonista» a Padova
Davide Mingozzi
«Non l’Armonia ma la
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 …
Read More →Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 32 – October 2018
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Nieves Pascual León
Tres suites de danzas para conjunto instrumental: nueva contribución a la gura de W. C. Printz (1641-1717) en el tercer centenario de su fallecimiento
Giorgia Malagò
Le lettere di Giuseppe Tartini come fonte per la storia
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 …
Read More →Ad Parnassum Journal – Vol. 16 – No. 31 – April 2018 pp. 128
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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: …
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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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Read More →Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op-sn 30
edited by Luca Lévi Sala, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2012 (Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works, II.5), ISMN: 979-0-2153-1996-7, ISBN: 978-88-8109-477-6 (CCE 2).
We are aware only of a single manuscript source of the Concerto in C, composed …
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