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The well-travelled musician : John Sigismond Cousser and musical exchange in Baroque Europe
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Title
The well-travelled musician : John Sigismond Cousser and musical exchange in Baroque Europe / Samantha Owens.
ISBN
9781783272341
1783272341
Publication
Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2017.
Physical Description
xvi, 385 pages ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2017
Series
Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.
Contents
John Sigismond Cousser and his Commonplace book
Hungarian beginnings and the adoption of French musical style
Kapellmeister at the Wolfenbüttel court and Braunschweig Opera House
Ariadne to Porus : Cousser's Braunschweig operas
The incomparable director in Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Augsburg
Heliconische Musen-Lust : opera at the Württemberg court
Il paradiso terrestre? : Cousser in London
Fortune not blind : music for Dublin Castle
Our concert : a musician at home
Cousser's "collection of fine musick" and the practicalities of musical exchange
Appendix 1. Summary of the contents of Cousser's Commonplace book
Appendix 2. Cousser's address book
Appendix 3. Cousser's books of cantatas, madrigals, duets, and serenatas
Appendix 4. Cousser's inventory of ouverture incipits
Appendix 5. Transcription of Cousser's notes for his 1716 trip to London and the Continent.
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