... and what music and dialogue the audiences hear on the film’s official soundtrack. Field used the music of Gustav Mahler in particularly striking ways, to convey the title character’s abilities and ambitions but also to generate intertextual meaning, to establish an unusual hyper-allusive and hyper-self...

...Jeremy Barham Discussion of Mahler and his music in the context of eroticism is rare. He is often personally contrasted with his wife Alma in terms of cultural interests and behavior. Evidence reveals, however, that he was more romantically experienced than Alma indicated at the time...

...Lawrence Kramer Mahler’s use of the contralto voice in his Second and Third Symphonies and in Das Lied von der Erde is commonly observed but little examined. The contralto sound in the “Urlicht” movement of the Second Symphony and the “Midnight Song” of the Third remains to be thought through; so...

...Susan McClary We are accustomed to hearing the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony played as an elegy, appropriate for state funerals and the like. But Wilhelm Mengelberg, once Mahler’s assistant, claimed that the movement was composed as a love letter to Alma, and his performance offers...

...Leah Batstone A survey of Mahler’s correspondents, especially his classmates at the University of Vienna in the 1870s, reveals a multifaceted identity he shared with them. Most of his fellow members of the Pernerstorfer Circle, young intellectuals who met to discuss art and politics during...

... victim, invoke the potent and at times unsettling effects of musical performance. Gustav Mahler's first large-scale work, Das klagende Lied , takes up this extraordinary narrative and translates its exceptional features into poetry and musical sound in a manner that especially foregrounds and amplifies...

...Laura Dolp The opening of Mahler's “Der Abschied” from Das Lied von der Erde demonstrates a special set of musical conditions that include spare textures, a wide disposition of instrumental forces, and the effect of temporal suspension. This transparency allows the process of individuation...