Specvlvm Mvsicae
Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 22), pp. xii+472, ISBN 978-2-503-55246-0.
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This volume investigates the relationships between music and propaganda in the twentieth-century. Music can be utilised to attribute and ascribe multivalent...
Specvlvm Mvsicae
Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century
edited by Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 23), XIV+441 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-55247-7.
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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of the public figure of the orchestral conductor. Like composers and performers,...
Specvlvm Mvsicae
«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.
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In 2011 the musical world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt. Composer, itinerant piano virtuoso, organist and conductor,...
Specvlvm Mvsicae
Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism
edited by Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 25), pp. XVIII + 494, ISBN 978-2-503-55325-2.
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Published with the Assistance of Fondation Igor Stravinsky
Bringing together twenty-four essays by scholars of different nationalities, this volume aims...
Specvlvm Mvsicae
Piano Culture in 19th-Century Paris
edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 26), pp. XII+414, ISBN 978-2-503-55326-9.
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The volume aims to investigate the world of the piano in France, and the evolution of the instrument between the ancien...
Ad Parnassum Studies
Massenet and the Mediterranean World
edited by Simone Ciolfi, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2015 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 7), ISBN: 978-88-8109-491-2.
Essays by Mathias Auclair, Jean-Christophe Branger, Simone Ciolfi, Matthew Franke, Vincent Giroud, Stephanie Klauk, Hugh Macdonald, Jürgen Maehder, Claire Paolacci,...
Music, Criticism & Politics
Protest Music in the Twentieth Century
edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 1), pp. xiv+418, isbn 978-2-503-56628-3.
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The subject of this monograph is protest music and ‘dissident’ composers and musicians during the twentieth century, with a...
Musical Treatises
Beverly Jerold, The Complexities of Early Instrumentation: Winds and Brass
Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Musical Treatises, 3), pp. xiv+160, ISBN 978-2-503-56479-1.
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When a professional orchestra today plays an eighteenth-century work with parts for wind and brass instruments, nothing seems amiss. Yet writers in the eighteenth century...