"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.
Sub-series edited, and preface written, by Paul Corneilson and Eugene K. Wolf.
"Ballet reform in the eighteenth century and ballet at the Mannheim court" by Sibylle Dahms, in English translation: pages ix-xxiii.
Critical notes: pages 139-144.
Preface and critical notes in English.