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Musical Treatises

Directed by Lorenzo Frassà.

This series publishes musicological studies in English or French on musical treatises from XIV century to the end of XIX century, as well as modern editions of treatises with a historical introduction and a critical commentary.

The «Compendium Musicæ» of René Descartes: Early English Responses

edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Musical Treatises, 2), pp. xlii+252, ISBN: 978-2-503-54898-2. Contents René Descartes’s Compendium musicæ was one of the most widely-read texts...

Vincenzo Manfredini, Regole armoniche

edited by Massimiliano Sala, facsimile of the 1775 Venice edition, with an annotated English translation by Robert Zappulla, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 (Musical Treatises, 1),...

Forthcoming Publications

Music and the Politics of Censorship: From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age

edited by James Garratt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 12). In relation to music, the word censorship immediately calls to mind the totalitarian...

European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Context and Meanings

edited by Charles Edward McGuire, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57). As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions –...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology

edited by Karen M. Cook, William Gibbons, and Fanny Rebillard, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Science & Technology, 8). This book investigates the global histories of...

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) György Kurtág, who is still active at the age of 99,...

New Releases

Musical Networks across Borders. The Multiplicity of Musical Creation

edited by Bella Brover-Lubovsky and Irit Youngerman, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2025 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 15), pp. 456, ISBN: 978-88-8109-546-9. Contents Essays by: Lawrence F. Bernstein,...

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...

Journal of Music Criticism 8 (2024)

Registered Tribunale di Lucca - RG n. 1323/2017 | ISSN 2532-9995 | © Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. All rights reserved. Discussing (Neo)Classicism...

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...