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
Titles listed here were originally published under the series title Music in Britain, 1600–1900
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2019
- 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. 386Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017