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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.

Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Minor Forms of Musical Theatre in the 18th and...

edited by María Encina Cortizo and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 43), pp. xiv+562 , ISBN 978-2-503-59543-6. Contents The present volume has been...

Haydn’s Last Creative Period

edited by Federico Gon, Turnhout Brepols, 2021 (Speculum Musicae, 42), pp. xiv+366, ISBN 978-2-503-59488-0. Contents This volume focuses on one of the most crucial parts of...

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. Contents           Winner of the American Liszt Society Fifth Alan Walker Book Award This volume examines the concept...

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. Contents The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and...

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. Contents In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: «Die bildende Kunst in ihrer höchsten...

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 Contents The present volume has been made possible by the assistance of the OICRM and the Palazzetto...

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. Contents The development of music publishing in the final years of the eighteenth...

Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)

Contents completed, revised and edited by Sybille Werner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 36), pp. xviii+810, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8. The present volume has been made possible with...

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. Contents The present volume has been...

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 Contents Cinema is the form of entertainment that can be,...

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,...