Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedcation
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Sources
- Introduction: John Sigismond Cousser and his ‘Commonplace Book’
- 1 Hungarian Beginnings and the Adoption of French Musical Style
- 2 Kapellmeister at the Wolfenbüttel Court and Braunschweig Opera House
- 3 Ariadne to Porus: Cousser's Braunschweig Operas
- 4 ‘The Incomparable Director’ in Hamburg, Nuremberg and Augsburg
- 5 Heliconische Musen-Lust: Opera at the Württemberg Court
- 6 ‘Il Paradiso terrestre’? Cousser in London
- 7 ‘Fortune not Blind’: Music for Dublin Castle
- 8 ‘Our Concert’: A Musician at Home
- 9 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–1900
- New titles published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–2000
- Frontmatter
- Dedcation
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Sources
- Introduction: John Sigismond Cousser and his ‘Commonplace Book’
- 1 Hungarian Beginnings and the Adoption of French Musical Style
- 2 Kapellmeister at the Wolfenbüttel Court and Braunschweig Opera House
- 3 Ariadne to Porus: Cousser's Braunschweig Operas
- 4 ‘The Incomparable Director’ in Hamburg, Nuremberg and Augsburg
- 5 Heliconische Musen-Lust: Opera at the Württemberg Court
- 6 ‘Il Paradiso terrestre’? Cousser in London
- 7 ‘Fortune not Blind’: Music for Dublin Castle
- 8 ‘Our Concert’: A Musician at Home
- 9 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–1900
- New titles published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–2000
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- The Well-Travelled MusicianJohn Sigismond Cousser and Musical Exchange in Baroque Europe, pp. xii - xvPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017