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.
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René Descartes’s Compendium musicæ was one of the most widely-read texts...
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.
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When a professional orchestra today plays an eighteenth-century work with parts for wind and brass...
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 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...
New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello
edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae)
This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...
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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), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5.
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The figurative arts — or the...
The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity
edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0.
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This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...
Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory
Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.
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The present volume has been made possibile...
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.
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For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...