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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

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...