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Specvlvm Mvsicae

Directed by Roberto Illiano.

The series is to consist of important musicological monographs and miscellanea covering the whole range of music history from Antiquity to the present.

The Sound of Empire: Soundscapes, Aesthetics and Performance between «Ancien régime» and Restoration

edited by Federico Gon and Emmanuel Reibel, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 51), pp. xvi + 352, ISBN 978-2-503-60849-5. Contents The second half of the eighteenth...

Between Centres and Peripheries: Music in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI

edited by María Encina Cortizo and Yvan Nommick, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Speculum Musicae, 50), pp. xiv+434, ISBN 978-2-503-60848-8. 50th volume in the series 'Specvlvm Mvsicae' Contents This...

Women Composers in New Perspectives, 1800-1950: Genres, Contexts and Repertoire

edited by Mariateresa Storino and Susan Wollenberg, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Speculum Musicae, 49), pp. xii+350, ISBN 978-2-503-60630-9. Contents   This volume offers new scholarship on women composers...

Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception

edited by Malcolm Miller and William Kinderman  Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Speculum Musicae, 48), pp. xx+410, ISBN 978-2-503-60290-5.   Contents   Beethoven’s music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context,...

Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage

edited by Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 55), pp. xxii + 317, ISBN 978-2-503-61558-5 Contents The lyric stage is a cultural...

Of signs and sounds: musical interpretation and performance from the 19th to the 21st...

edited by Rémy Campos and Arthur Macé, Turhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 58), ISBN 978-2-503-62179-1, pp. xii+396. Contents   Over the last few decades, scholarly literature dedicated...

Financing Music in Europe

edited by Étienne Jardin, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Speculum Musicae, 47, pp. XII+452, ISBN 978-2-503-60289-9. Contents The present volume has been made possible by the assistance of...

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. Contents The present volume has been made possible by the assistance...

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. Contents The present volume has been published with the generous support of the Università degli Studi di Salerno...

La Musique religieuse en France au XIXe siècle : Le sentiment religieux entre profane...

edited by Nicolas Dufetel, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 44), pp. lvi+436, ISBN 978-2-503-59777-5. Contents The present volume has been made possible by the assistance...

Forthcoming Publications

New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello

edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae) This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...

The Theatre of Death: Noble Funerals with Music in Early Modern Europe

edited by Grégoire Bauguil, Galliano Ciliberti and Galliano Ciliberti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 63). The public nature of funerals for the noble elite was...

Soundscapes of Histories Entwined: Food and Music 1400-1850

edited by Iain Fenlon and Allen Grieco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 64). For many, the coincidence of social practices uniting music and food immediately...

The Italian Madrigal in Performance: Architectural Settings, Materiality, and Social Spaces

edited by Stefano Lorenzetti, Elisa Sala, and Livio Ticli, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Musica Incarnata, 4). The volume rethinks the Italian madrigal not as a self-contained...

New Releases

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0. Contents This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...

Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.           Contents The present volume has been made possibile...

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...