Contents
- List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Bibliographic abbreviations;
- 1. The young Mahler, 1875-1880: essay in situational analysis after Karl R. Popper Herta Blaukopf;
- 2. Das klagende Lied reconsidered Edward R. Reilly;
- 3. 'Liebste Justi!': the family letters of Gustav Mahler Stephen McClatchie;
- 4. Before Alma: Gustav Mahler and 'Das Ewig-Weibliche' Stuart Feder;
- 5. Mahler and Smetana: significant influences or accidental parallels? Donald Mitchell;
- 6. Music about music in Mahler: reminiscences, allusions, or quotations? Henry-Louis de La Grange;
- 7. 'Ihm in die Lieder zu blicken': Mahler's Seventh Symphony sketchbook Stephen E. Hefling;
- 8. Prolonged counterpoint in Mahler Kofi Agawu;
- 9. Dissonance and middleground prolongations in Mahler's later music John Williamson;
- 10. '... his fractures are the script of truth.' - Adorno's Mahler Peter Franklin; Index.