The extraordinary renown of Mannheim in the eighteenth century came to a jarring end in 1778 with the reluctant transfer of the court to Munich. One of the many consequences of this move was the apparent disappearance of all the music used by the famed Mannheim Kapelle. This book establishes precisely what happened to this invaluable collection, demonstrating through intensive documentary study that over 350 manuscripts from the electoral court have in fact survived. Complete details of these manuscripts are furnished in an exhaustive catalogue raisonne and three related appendices. In addition to providing an indispensable basis for future research on music at the Mannheim court, the book gives extensive attention throughout to the methodology of documentary research; it may thus serve as a comprehensive introduction to the study of music manuscripts of the period. Contents: The electoral court of Mannheim, 1720-1778-Music manuscripts from Mannheim-Methods for the study of manuscripts-Paper and watermarks-Rastrology-Handwriting and copyists.

Manuscripts from Mannheim, CA. 1730-1778: A Study in the Methodology of Musical Source Research (Quellen Und Studien Zur Geschichte der Mannheimer Hofkapelle)

Arts & Photography

Al-Da'mi, Muhammed A.

Wolf, Eugene K.

Music

Peter Lang Publishing

The value of Arab-Islamic history in Western thought has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now greater than ever. This book investigates the intellectual motives and compulsions that hide behind the nineteenth-century British and American elite’s invocation of this history. The touchstones are many – the prophet, the Caliphate, the conquests, and Muslim Spain to mention a few. Al-Da’mi discusses such issues in an attempt not only to show their relevance to domestic problems, but also to trace the roots of an idea and to forecast future crises and dialogues. The book’s finale demonstrates the unbridgeable gap between Eastern and Western approaches to the Islamic past.

Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers: Nineteenth-Century Literary Approaches to Arab-Islamic History (Comparative Cultures and Literatures)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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