Fragmenta Musicae

Contemporary Perspectives

edited by Joao Pedro d'Alvarenga, Manuel Pedro Ferreira and Alberto Medina de Seica

Book cover: Fragmenta Musicae

Extent: 542 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Epitome musical

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2025)

ISBN: 9782503613000

Price: $94.00

In stock

This volume brings together twenty studies that deal with a varied range of disjecta membra, including loose folios from dismembered manuscripts, mutilated musical-liturgical codices, incomplete sets of part-books, truncated musical settings, and even the remains of a historic organ, with the aim of investing them with significance beyond their condition as fragmented cultural artefacts by exploring their texts, contexts, meanings, trajectories and, when appropriate, proposing methods for their reconstitution.


This volume stems from a research project on medieval and sixteenth-century fragments with music carried out at CESEM-Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, Lisbon Nova University, between 2021 and 2024, as well as from an international colloquium on fragmentology held in Cascais, Portugal, in July 2023. It brings together twenty studies that address a varied range of disjecta membra, including loose folios from dismembered manuscripts, mutilated musical-liturgical codices, incomplete sets of part-books, truncated musical settings, and even the remains of a historic organ. The aim is to invest these materials with significance beyond their condition as fragmented cultural artefacts by exploring their texts, contexts, meanings, trajectories and, when appropriate, proposing methods for their reconstitution.

  • Edited by Joao Pedro d’Alvarenga
  • Edited by Manuel Pedro Ferreira
  • Edited by Alberto Medina de Seica