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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...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...

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...

Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century

edited by Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 23), XIV+441 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-55247-7. Contents The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of the...

Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

edited by Rudolf Rasch, pp. xii+392, 2011, ISBN: 978-2-503-54244-7. Contents Improvisation is an important aspect of music, not only in jazz and other 'improvised music', but...

Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage

edited by Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025, (Speculum Musicae, 55), pp. xxii + 317, ISBN 978-2-503-61558-5 Contents The lyric stage is a cultural site...

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 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...

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.  Contents The history of program music stretches back centuries, but only...

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

Music and the Figuratives Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59). The figurative arts — or the arts that transcribe the visible —...

European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings

edited by Charles Edward McGuire, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57). As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions –...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology

edited by Karen M. Cook, William Gibbons, and Fanny Rebillard, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Science & Technology, 8). This book investigates the global histories of...

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) György Kurtág, who is still active at the age of 99,...

New Releases

Musical Networks across Borders. The Multiplicity of Musical Creation

edited by Bella Brover-Lubovsky and Irit Youngerman, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2025 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 15), pp. 456, ISBN: 978-88-8109-546-9. Contents Essays by: Lawrence F. Bernstein,...

Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American...

Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Studies on Italian Music History, 20), pp. xiv+288, ISBN: 978-2-503-61565-3. Contents This new monograph synthesizes and contextualises the details surrounding the life and...

Journal of Music Criticism 8 (2024)

Registered Tribunale di Lucca - RG n. 1323/2017 | ISSN 2532-9995 | © Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. All rights reserved. Discussing (Neo)Classicism...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...