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 …
Read More →Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
edited by José Ignacio Suárez García and Ramón Sobrino Sánchez, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 35).
This volume deals, from multiple perspectives, with the complex world of European symphonism during the nineteenth century, a period in which it encompassed not …
Read More →Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)
completed with, revised and edited by Sybille Werner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 36).
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), which is widely considered …
Read More →Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)
edited by Massimiliano Sala,Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 37).
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 every facet of the music …
Read More →Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation, Negotations, Reception
edited by Jonathan Kregor, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 32), pp. XIV+ 490, ISBN 978-2-503-58346-4.
The history of program music stretches back centuries, but only in the nineteenth century did it enter into widespread use. Indeed, seminal compositions by Ludwig …
Read More →The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns
edited by Michael Stegemann, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Speculum Musicae, 31), pp. XIV+ 406, ISBN 978-2-503-58070-8.
French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) is certainly one of the most fascinating and important figures in the music history of the 19th and early …
Read More →Musical Theatre in Europe 1830-1945
edited by Michela Niccolai and Clair Rowden, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Speculum Musicae 30), pp. xviii+480, ISBN 978-2-503-57766-1.
From the mid-1800s in Europe there was a vigorous and enthusiastic expansion of diverse forms of musical theatre. An explosion of different …
Read More →Music and Figurative Arts in the Twentieth Century
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edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Speculum Musicae, 29), pp. xvi+451, 32 color ill., ISBN 978-2-503-57024-2.
The relationship between music and figurative arts during the twentieth century is encoded in the links that exist …
Read More →Meyerbeer and Grand Opera from the July Monarchy to the Present
edited by Mark Everist, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Speculum Musicae, 28), pp. xxiv+498, ISBN 978-2-503-56842-3.
Giacomo Meyerbeer stands as one of the great paradoxes in music history. Widely regarded as the single most important opera composer in the middle third of …
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"Music Patronage in Italy from the 15th to the 18th Century" International Conference - Lucca (16-18 November 2019)