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Studies on Italian Music History

Directed by Fulvia Morabito.

This series is devoted to the various aspects of the Italian rich musical heritage which has for centuries played a leading role in Western music.

The Early Keyboard Sonata in Italy and Beyond

edited by Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Studies on Italian Music History, 10), pp. xxii+334, isbn 978-2-503-56801-0. Contents Published with the Assistance of Fondazione San...

«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...

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. Contents The present volume has been made possibile with...

Studies on Italian Music History – Volumes 1-4

Vol. 4- Giovanni Battista Sammartini and his Musical Environment edited by Anna Cattoretti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2004. Vol.3 - Paul A. Merkley - Lora L.M. Merkley, Music...

Verdi Reception

edited by Lorenzo Frassà and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2013 (Studies on Italian Music History, 7), ISBN: 978-2-503-54615-5. Contents Organized in conjunction with the bicentenary...

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. Contents This volume reflects on Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) and...

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. Contents   The music heard in Italian cinema along the...

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. Contents   This study of the La Scala opera house uses the approaches of...

VIVA V.E.R.D.I.: Music from Risorgimento to the Unification of Italy

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Studies on Italian Music History, 8), pp. xii+396, ISBN: 978-2-503-54884-5. Contents The present book investigates the musical landscape of...

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. Contents In a seminal essay Carl Dahlhaus has pointed out that »often it...

Forthcoming Publications

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,...

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...

New Releases

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,...

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,...

«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...

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...