Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-570) and index.
Nature, culture, aesthetic. 'Vocal music in the symphonic context : from 'Titan', eine Tondichtung in Symphonieform to Das Lied von der Erde, or, The road 'less traveled' / Zoltan Roman -- Mahler and the idea of nature / Julian Johnson -- Mahler the thinker : the books of the Alma Mahler-Werfel collection / Jeremy Barham -- Mahlery's untimely modernism / Morten Solvik
Reception : the Jewish and Eastern European questions. Jewish identity and anti-Semitic critique in the Austro-German reception of Mahler, 1900-1945 / Karen Painter -- Gustav Mahler's musical Jewsihness / Vladimír Karbusický
Analytical approaches. Multi-stage exposition in Mahler's symphonies / Richard Kaplan -- From the first movement of Mahler's Fifth symphony / Robert G. Hopkins -- The first movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde : genre, form and musical expression / Elisabeth Schmierer -- Theme, thematic process and variant form in the Andante moderato of Mahler's Sixth symphony / James Buhler -- 'Ways of telling' in Mahler's music : the Third symphony as narrative text / Vera Micznik
Mahler in performance. Mahler's first season as director at the K.K. Hofoperntheater : the composer waits in the wings / Herta Blaukopf -- Mahler on record : the spirit or the letter? / David Pickett -- Adagietto : 'from Mahler with love' / Gilbert Kaplan -- 'Progress' and 'tradition' : Mahler's revisions and changing performance practice conventions / Reinhold Kubik
Sketches, editions and 'performing versions'. Re-evaluating the sources of Mahler's music / James L. Zychowicz -- Unfinished works of Mahler : the Scherzo in C minor, the Presto in F major, the Tenth symphony and comparative arguments for 'performing versions' / Susan M. Filler -- Mahler's Tenth symphony : rediscovered manuscript pages, chronology, influences and 'performing versions' / Frans Bouwman
Nature, culture, aesthetics -- Reception : the Jewish and Eastern European questions -- Analytical approaches -- Mahler in performance -- Sketches, editions, and "performing versions."