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Serenatas for Dublin
- Title
- Serenatas for Dublin / Johann Sigismund Kusser ; edited by Samantha Owens.
- Author
- Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727
- Publication
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2020]
- ©2020
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- Additional Authors
- Owens, Samantha
- Description
- 1 score (xxiii, 262 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles; 31 cm.
- Summary
- "Johann Sigismund Kusser (or, as he was known in England and Ireland, John Sigismond Cousser), was a Hungarian-born musician who, after a varied and successful career in the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire, settled in Ireland in July 1707. In Dublin Kusser composed and directed the performances of at least twenty-one festive serenatas that marked important state occasions in Dublin between 1709 and his death in late 1727. Presented before the elite of local society in semistaged productions featuring costumes, stage machinery, and dancing, these works functioned as something of an operatic substitute in the city's cultural life. The contents of the present volume comprise the three serenatas for which music remains extant. Two of these can be proven definitively to be of Kusser's own composition, and the third, due to its musical style, overall structure, and subject matter, is almost certainly his creation as well. These works provide remarkably rare musical evidence of a key component of the artistic offerings of Dublin's viceregal court during the early decades of the eighteenth century." --
- Series Statement
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque era, 0484-0828 ; 210
- Uniform Title
- Serenatas. Selections
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 210.
- Alternative Title
- Serenatas.
- Subject
- Serenatas > Scores
- Genre/Form
- Art music.
- Scores.
- Serenatas.
- Note
- Commemorative or occasional serenatas for vocal soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra.
- Introduction and critical report in English.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- English words, also presented as text preceding score.
- Contents
- The universal applause of Mount Parnassus : serenata de camera (1711) -- An idylle on the Peace : serenata theatrale (1713) -- No! He's not Dead! : serenata à 4 (ca. 1707-1714).
- Call Number
- JMG 21-255
- ISBN
- 1987204506
- 9781987204506
- LCCN
- 9781987204506
- OCLC
- 1151838703
- Author
- Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727, composer.
- Title
- Serenatas for Dublin / Johann Sigismund Kusser ; edited by Samantha Owens.
- Publisher
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- notated music
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Recent researches in the music of the Baroque era, 0484-0828 ; 210Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 210.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- English words, also presented as text preceding score.Staff notation.
- Added Author
- Owens, Samantha, editor.Container of (work): Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727. Universal applause of Mount Parnassus.Container of (work): Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727. Idylle on the Peace.Container of (work): Kusser, Johann Sigismund, 1660-1727. Serenata à 4.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781987204506 (paperback)
- Publisher No.
- B210 A-R Editions, Inc.
- Research Call Number
- JMG 21-255