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 →Music and the Second Industrial Revolution
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Science and Technology, 2), pp. xiv+498, ISBN: 978-2-503-58571-0.
The Second Industrial Revolution, new industrial societies, and growing urbanization drastically changed the life of humankind at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth …
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 …
Read More →Music Criticism 1950-2000
edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 8), pp. xxiv + 420, ISBN 978-2-503-58442-3.
This book addresses the complex world of music criticism during the second half of the twentieth century, with particular …
Read More →Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack
edited by Emile Wennekes and Emilio Audissino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 34), pp. XXVI+334, ISBN 978-2-503-58447-8
Cinema is the form of entertainment that can be, above all, identified with the twentieth century. It gradually replaced theatre as a popular …
Read More →Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era
edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 33), ISBN: 978-2-503-58369-3.
In the Baroque period there is a large discrepancy between sound entity and musical notation. In a context where the musical tradition, handwritten and printed, at times suggests …
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