«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.
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This volume offers...
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.
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This new monograph synthesizes and contextualises the details surrounding the life and...
Luciane Beduschi. Padre Martini’s Closed and Enigmatic Canons with Solutions by Luigi Cherubini
A 19th-Century Guide into Renaissance Music Riddles, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Studies on Italian Music History, 19), pp. xiv+336, ISBN 978-2-503-60847-1.
The present volume has been...
Italian Film Music, 1950s-1970s: Between Tradition, Innovation, and Internationalisation
edited by Franco Sciannameo, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Studies on Italian Music History, 18), pp. xvi+438, ISBN: 978-2-503-60846-4.
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The music heard in Italian cinema along the...
Geographies of Sound: Sounding and Listening to the Urban Space of Early Modern Italy...
The present volume has been made possibile by the friendly support of the Università degli Studi di Catania – DISUM
edited by Luigi Collarile and...
Raffaella Bianchi. A Cultural History of La Scala in the Risorgimento (1814-1848)
Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Studies on Italian Music History, 16), pp. XXX+320, ISBN 978-2-503-60244-8.
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This study of the La Scala opera house uses the approaches of...
Music Patronage in Italy
edited by Galliano Ciliberti, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Studies on Italian Music History, 15), pp. xviii+492 , ISBN 978-2-503-59544-3.
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During the Renaissance and throughout the...
Luigi Cherubini: A Multifaceted Composer at the Turn of the 19th Century
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 14), pp. x+494, ISBN 978-2-503-59100-1.
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The present volume has been made possibile with...
Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy
edited by Arnold Jacobshagen, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Studies on Italian Music History, 13), ISBN: 978-2-503-58820-9, pp. xiv+420.
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This volume reflects on Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) and...
J. Hirshberg. Tragedy and Lieto Fine in Romantic Opera Seria
Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Studies on Italian Music History, 12), pp. x+266, ISBN: 978-2-503-58642-7.
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In a seminal essay Carl Dahlhaus has pointed out that »often it...
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...