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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 Opéra-comique in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

edited by Lorenzo Frassà, x+394 pp., Brepols 2011, (Speculum Musicae, 15), ISBN 978-2-503-52781-9. Contents This volume presents sixteen essays, ranging from the reception of the genre's...

The Legacy of Richard Wagner

edited by Luca Lévi Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 (Speculum Musicae, 18), pp. XVI+460, ISBN: 978-2-503-54613-1. Contents In the context of the social culture of Europe, the...

Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America

edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala, XIV+767 pp., Brepols 2009, (Speculum Musicae, 14), ISBN 978-2-503-52779-6. Contents In this book, edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano...

Music and Francoism

edited by Gemma Pérez Zalduondo andy Germán Gan Quesada, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Speculum Musicae, 21), pp. XII+488, ISBN: 978-2-503-54889-9. Contents --- The present volume has been made...

Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe

edited by Francesc Cortès and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 60), pp. xiv+450, ISBN 978-2-503-62466-2. Contents During the 19th century, music thrived in a...

«En Pèlerinage avec Liszt»: Virtuosos, Repertoire and Performing Venues in 19th-Century Europe

edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 24), XVI+376, ISBN 978-2-503-55324-5. Contents In 2011 the musical world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth...

Michela Niccolai, La dramaturgie de Gustave Charpentier

pp. xxxiv + 540, 2011, ISBN: 978-2-503-54340-6. Contents   Gustave Charpentier is one of the most original fin de siècle composers. His musical output — in particular...

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...

Forthcoming Publications

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,...

In Search of Morton Feldman. A Portrait of the Composer at 100

edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8). There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists analysis, first through...

Twentieth-Century Music Criticism and Racial Discourses

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 14). In recent decades, the relationship between music and criticism has been a key...

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...

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,...