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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.

Meyerbeer and Grand Opera from the July Monarchy to the Present

edited by Mark Everist, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Speculum Musicae, 28), pp. xxiv+498, ISBN 978-2-503-56842-3. Contents Published with the Assistance of PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE - Centre de musique...

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...

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...

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...

Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism

edited by Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 25), pp. XVIII + 494, ISBN 978-2-503-55325-2. Contents Published with the Assistance of Fondation Igor Stravinsky Bringing together...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Forthcoming Publications

Music and the Figurative 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 —...

Abbonizio, Isabella. Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy: Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation

Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism and Politics, 13). This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of the role of music within the context of Italian...

Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures

edited by Joan Grimalt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 3). Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures offers a fresh exploration of musical rhetoric, moving beyond traditional...

Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe

edited by Francesc Cortès and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 60). During the 19th century, music thrived in a variety of private and...

The Composer-Conductor Figure between the 19th and 20th Centuries

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 61). Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many great musicians served as both composers and conductors,...

New Releases

«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy

edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Studies on Italian Music History, 21), pp. xx + 480, ISBN: 978-2-503-62185-2. Contents This volume offers...

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,...

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...

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...