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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.

Fulvia Morabito, Pietro Antonio Locatelli: A Modern Artist in the Baroque Era

English Translation by Warwick Lister, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Studies on Italian Music History, 11), pp. xx+288, isbn 978-2-503-58017-3. Contents Published in collaboration with the Italian National...

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...

Locatelli and the Violin Bravura Tradition

edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Studies on Italian Music History, 9), pp. xiv+406, ISBN 978-2-503-55535-5. Contents Published with the Assistance of Fondazione MIA (Bergamo)...

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...

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...

Paola Palermo – Giulia Pecis Cavagna, La cappella musicale di Santa Maria Maggiore a...

with documents transcriptions on Cd-Rom.  Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 (Studies on Italian Music History, 6), XII+526pp, Hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-51033-0. Contents From its very creation the musical chapel of Santa...

Nicolò Paganini. Diabolus in Musica

edited by Andrea Barizza and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2010, (Studies on Italian Music History, 5), XIV+566pp, Hardback, ISBN 978-2-503-53533-3. Contents Paganini is considered to be the greatest...

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...

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...

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,...