Popular Song in the 19th Century
edited by Derek B. Scott, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Speculum Musicae, 46), pp. xxvi+358, ISBN 978-2-503-60078-9.
Many new and exciting kinds of popular song emerged in the 19th century, and the contributors to this volume place the development and reception …
Read More →Massimiliano Locanto. Stravinsky and the Musical Body: Creative Process and Meaning
Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 45), pp. xiv+398, ISBN 978-2-503-59778-2.
The present volume has been published with the generous support of the
Università degli Studi di Salerno (DISPAC)
The idea that …
Read More →La Musique religieuse en France au XIXe siècle : Le sentiment religieux entre profane et sacré (1830-1914)
edited by Nicolas Dufetel, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 44), pp. lvi+436, ISBN 978-2-503-59777-5.
The present volume has been made possible by the assistance of the
This volume investigates religious music in France during the 19th century, …
Read More →Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Minor Forms of Musical Theatre in the 18th and 19th Century
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 →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 →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…
Read More →Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 39), pp. xiv+528, ISBN: 978-2-503-58951-0.
In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: «Die bildende Kunst in ihrer höchsten Vollendung muss Musik werden und uns durch unmittelbare sinnliche Gegenwart rühren» (Schiller, Über die ästhetische …
Read More →François De Médicis, La maturation artistique de Debussy dans son contexte historique (1884-1902)
Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 38), pp. xx+814, ISBN: 978-2-503-58950-3
This work is centered on the figure of Claude Debussy in the years between 1884 and 1902 — from the moment he captured the Prix de Rome to the premiere …
Read More →Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 37), pp. xiv+322, ISBN: 978-2-503-58815-5.
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 …
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