Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Minor Forms of Musical Theatre in the 18thand 19thCentury
edited by María Encina Cortizo and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 43), pp. xiv+562 , ISBN 978-2-503-59543-6.
This volume addresses the complex variety of stage works with sung and spoken sections, such as vaudeville, singspiel, …
Read More →Boccherini, Luigi. 6 Trios for 2 Violins and Violoncello Op. 4 (G 83-88) [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXVII.2]
edited by Rudolf Rasch, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2019 [Opera Omnia – Vol. XXVII.2], ISMN: 979-0-2153-2648-4, ISBN: 978-88-8109-518-6, BCE 9.
Today Luigi Boccherini is best known as a composer of music for the cello – in particular sonatas and concertos …
Read More →Haydn’s Last Creative Period
edited by Federico Gon, Turnhout Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 42), pp. xiv+366, ISBN 978-2-503-59488-0.
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 …
Read More →Anna G. Piotrowska, From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study of the Musical Rhapsody
Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 41), pp. xxii+248, ISBN 978-2-503-59487-3.
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 …
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), pp. x+494, ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1.
This volume investigates the figure of Luigi Cherubini, with the aim of providing a picture of the various faces that a composer and …
Read More →Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer
edited by Fabio Morabito and Louise Bernard de Raymond, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2020 (Quaderni Clementiani, 5), pp. 360, ISBN: 978-88-8109-522-3.
Essays by Louise Benrard de Raymond, Muriel Boulan, Thomas Christensen, Étienne Jardin, Ellen Lockhart, Fabio Morabito, William O’Hara, Alban …
Read More →Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330
edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 40), pp. xviii+318, ISBN: 978-2-503-59099-8.
The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and proliferation of a diverse and unprecedented outpouring of musical activity known as the ars antiqua…
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