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Musical Treatises

Directed by Lorenzo Frassà.

This series publishes musicological studies in English or French on musical treatises from XIV century to the end of XIX century, as well as modern editions of treatises with a historical introduction and a critical commentary.

Giorgio Antoniotto. L’Arte Armonica or a Treatise on the Composition of Musick

Facsimile of the edition J. Johnson 1760, with an Introduction by Deborah Burton, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Musical Treatises, 4) pp. liv +178 color ill.,...

Beverly Jerold, The Complexities of Early Instrumentation: Winds and Brass

Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Musical Treatises, 3), pp. xiv+160, ISBN 978-2-503-56479-1. Contents When a professional orchestra today plays an eighteenth-century work with parts for wind and brass...

The «Compendium Musicæ» of René Descartes: Early English Responses

edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Musical Treatises, 2), pp. xlii+252, ISBN: 978-2-503-54898-2. Contents René Descartes’s Compendium musicæ was one of the most widely-read texts...

Vincenzo Manfredini, Regole armoniche

edited by Massimiliano Sala, facsimile of the 1775 Venice edition, with an annotated English translation by Robert Zappulla, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Musical Treatises, 1),...

Forthcoming Publications

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2). This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time, geography, and genre,...

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...

New Releases

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...

Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American...

Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Studies on Italian Music History, 20), pp. xiv+288, ISBN: 978-2-503-61565-3. Contents This new monograph synthesizes and contextualises the details surrounding the life and...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

edited by Delphine Vincent, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Contemporary Composers, 6), pp. xx+354, ISBN 978-2-503-61185-3. Contents A major figure in the world of contemporary music, Max Richter...