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1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) |
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Music in Britain, 1600-2000 |
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Music in Britain, 1600-2000.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
John Sigismond Cousser, as performer and composer, was a pioneering figure in the musical history of the European Baroque era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727.
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Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727 |
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Composers -- Biography
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Conductors (Music) -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Conductors (Music)
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Composers
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Musicians
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Hungary
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787441491 |
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1787441490 |
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