"This edition presents for the first time most of the surviving ballet music performed at Mannheim in the 1760s and 1770s. Each ballet is complete and newly engraved in full score and includes an introduction to the music, translations of the scenarios, and information on the sources, composers, ballet masters, and other pertinent historical backgrounds"--Preface, page vii.
Sub-series edited, and preface written, by Paul Corneilson and Eugene K. Wolf.
Includes essay, "Costume in eighteenth-century ballet reform," by Sibylle Dahms (pages ix-xxii).
Includes introduction (pages xxiii-xxxii) and critical notes (pages 103-105).
Historical and editorial notes in English; includes original French synopses, with English translations.