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 …
Read More →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 →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 →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 →Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330
edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 41).
The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and proliferation of a diverse and unprecedented outpouring of musical activity known as the ars antiqua.
Polyphonic, monophonic, liturgical, …
Read More →Anna G. Piotrowska, From Gypsy to Bohemian: A Study in Musical Rhapsody
Turnhout, Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 41).
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 the genre and its …
Read More →New Masterclass
