In this volume we wanted to investigate the intersection between the Industrial Revolution and the aesthetic-musical field. In particular, we aimed to explore the European dimension of the cultural exchanges caused by the phenomenon of musical migration, together with the international relationships generated by the music printing industry, entrepreneurship and the market for musical instruments. The later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries were a time of fundamental change in European life, proceeding from the revolutionary implications of the ideologies of Enlightenment, and reverberating in market economies, methods of manufacturing and agriculture, modes of travel, and population distribution. The development of new technologies resulted in the enlargement and improvement of the music printing industry, and in the widespread diffusion of music in private and public spheres. The Industrial Revolution brought about the ‘modernization’ of productive processes and, as a consequence, engendered a kind of ‘globalization’ of the musical market.

Ad Parnassum Studies
Collana diretta da Luca Lévi Sala

La collana di studi della rivista semestrale Ad Parnassum. A Journal of 18th and 19th-Century Instrumental Music è dedicata a compositori che hanno avuto un impatto significativo nel campo della musica strumentale.
In questo modo essi rimangono nell'area di pertinenza della rivista, senza tuttavia strette limitazioni sugli specifici temi trattati, potendo spaziare sull'intera produzione del compositore in oggetto, non solamente la musica strumentale.