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  • [+] Mahler's Life
    • Bosworth, Michael. "The Ellis Island U.S. Arrival Records for Gustav Mahler, 1907-1910." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 2 (September 2007): 2-3. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • Chan, Hannah. "Balancing Artistic Vision, Public Taste, and Economic Reality: Gustav Mahler's Concert Programs for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1909-1911)." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 4 (March 2007): 2-16. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • Christy, Nicholas P. and Beverly M. Christy. "Mahler's Final Illness." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 4 (March 2008): 8-12. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • Draughon, Francesca and Raymond Knapp. "Gustav Mahler and the Crisis of Jewish Identity." ECHO: a music-centered journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall 2001).
    • Engel, Gabriel. Gustav Mahler: Song Sumphonist. A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook.
    • Gustav Mahler: A World of Experience. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Keeping Score Project.
    • Kravitt, Edward F. "Mahler, Victim of the 'New' Anti-Semitism." Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 127 (2002): 72-94. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
    • Pringshem, Klaus. "My Recollection of Gustav Mahler." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2003): 9. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
  • [+] Mahler's Works
    • [+] Kindertotenlieder
      • Friedfeld, Mitch. "Kindertotenlieder: Introduction." Classical Net, 2001.
    • [+] Das Klagende Lied
      • Reilly, Edward R. "Das Klagende Lied (1901)." Program note for the American Symphony Orchestra.
    • [+] Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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    • [+] Das Lied von der Erde
      • Chew, Teng-Leong. "The Identity of the Chinese Poem Mahler Adapted for 'Von der Jugend.'" Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 2 (September 2004): 15-17. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Chew, Teng-Leong. "The Literary Changes in Das Lied von der Erde."
      • Chew, Teng-Leong. "Tracking the Literary Metamorphosis of Das Lied von der Erde." (pdf)
    • [+] Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
      • Youens, Susan. "Schubert, Mahler and the Weight of the Past: 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' and 'Winterreise.'" Music and Letters, vol. 67, no. 3 (1986): 256-268. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
    • [+] The Rückert Lieder
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    • [+] The Symphonies
      • [+] Overview
        • Calomino, Salvatore. "Mahler's Saints: Medieval Devotional Figures and Their Transformation in Mahler's Symphonies." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 3 (December 2006): 8-15. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Chew, Teng-Leong. "Mahler's Use of Glissando." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 1 (June 2006): 8-12. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Feder, Stuart. "Mahler, Mourning and Consolation." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 1 (June 2005): 8-9. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Jones, Joseph E. "Envy and Misinterpretation: Richard Strauss and Mahler's Resistance to the Descriptive Program." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 3: 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Mitchell, Donald. "Gustav Mahler: Prospect and Retrospect." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 10 (1963): 138-48. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 2 (September 2007): 4-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Smith Storey, Warren. "Some Mahlerian Misconceptions." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 4 (1946). Reprinted in Naturlaut, vo. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 19-20. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Zychowicz, James L. "Orchestration of Mahler's Symphonies."
      • [+] Symphony #1
        • Buhler, James. "'Breakthrough' as Critique of Form: The Finale of Mahler's First Symphony." 19th-Century Music, vol. 20, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 125-143. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Gantz, Jeffrey. "Gustav Mahler's Blumine: A Love Story." ThePheonix.com (September 28, 2000).
        • McClatchie, Stephen. "The 1889 Version of Mahler's First Symphony: A New Manuscript." 19th-Century Music, vol. 20, no. 2 (Autumn, 1996): 99-124). (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Zychowicz, James L. "False Readings: Mahler's First Symphony as Film Music." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 17-18. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Zychowicz, James L. and Susan M. Filler. "The Newly Discovered Source for Mahler's First Symphony: Issues of Context." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 4 (March 2003): 11-14. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • [+] Symphony #2
        • Bauman, Thomas. "Mahler in a New Key: Genre and the 'Resurrection' Finale." The Journal of Musicology, vol. 23, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 468-85. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Grant, Parks. "Mahler's Second Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 3 (December 2003): 4-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Hoeper, Jan. "A Literary Link between Mahler's Early Poetry and Symphony No. 2." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 4 (March 2003): 9-10. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Kangas, Ryan R. "Mourning, Remembrance, and Mahler's 'Resurrection.'" 19th-Century Music, vol. 36, no. 1 (Summer 2012): 58-83. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb. Original Auferstehen hymn used in Mahler's Second Symphony.
      • [+] Symphony #3
        • Filler, Susan M. "Mahler's Third Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 4 (March 2004): 2-4. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Hoeper, Jan. "'Pan Awakes': Parable, Parody, and Paradox." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 4 (March 2004): 5-6. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • McGrath, William J. "'Volkseelenpolitik' and Psychological Rebirth: Mahler and Hoffmansthal." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4, no. 1 (Summer 1973): 53-72. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Ruttenberg, Stan. "Symphony No. 3: What Nature and Man Tell Me." Program note for Colorado MahlerFest XIII.
      • [+] Symphony #4
        • Ruttenberg, Stan. "Mahler's heavenly Symphony: A Brief Essay." Program note for Colorado MahlerFest XIV.
      • [+] Symphony #5
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      • [+] Symphony #6
        • Chakwin, Stephen D., Jr. "Mahler's Sixth Symphony in Context: What the History of Minor-Key Symphonies Can Tell Us about Mahler's Decision about Movement Order." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 4 (March 2006): 8-11. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Darcy, Warren. "Rotational Form, Teleological Genesis, and Fantasy-Projection in the Slow Movement of Mahler's Sixth Symphony." 19th-Century Music, vol. 25, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 49-74. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Engel, Gabriel. "With Hammer and Cowbells -- Mahler's Sixth Comes to America." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 5 (1948): 1-12. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 3 (December 2002): 4-8. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Gantz, Jeffrey. "Myth and Reality in Mahler's Sixth Symphony." Program note for Colorado MahlerFest XVI.
        • Kaplan, Gilbert. "Restoring Order in a Cataclysmic Symphony." New York Times (Dec 14, 2003).
        • Kaplan, Gilbert, ed. The Correct Movement Order in Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Texts by Jerry Bruck and Reinhold Kubik.
        • Zychowicz, James L. "To My Dear Friend Ossip Gabrilowitsch: A Score from the Premiere of Mahler's Sixth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 4 (March 2008): 2-4. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • [+] Symphony #7
        • Zychowicz, James L. "Mahler's Seventh Symphony Revisited." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 3 (December 2004): 2-6. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • [+] Symphony #8
        • Calomino, Salvatore. "Depiction of the Anchorites in Mahler's Eighth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 4 (March 2005): 2-6. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Calomino, Salvatore. "Veni Creator Spiritus and Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 1 (June 2004): 4-6. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Papanikolaou, Eftychia. "The Religious Impulse in Schumann's and Mahler's Settings of Goethe's Faust." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 2 (September 2005): 11-17. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • [+] Symphony #9
        • Amenta, Charles. "The Opening of the Mahler Ninth Symphony and the Bernstein 'Heart-Beat' Hypothesis." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 1 (June 2005): 17-18. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Fox, Gerald S. "Musings on Mahler's NInth Symphony." Program note for Colorado Mahlerfest XVIII.
        • Micznik, Vera. "The Farewell Story of Mahler's Ninth Symphony." 19th-Century Music, vol. 20, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 144-166. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Zander, Benjamin. "Reflections on Mahler's Ninth Symphony." New England Conservatory Prep Blog.
      • [+] Symphony #10
        • Bloomfield, Theodore. "In Search of Mahler's Tenth: The Four Performing Versions as Seen by a Conductor." The Musical Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2 (1990): 175-196. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Bouwman, Frans. "Editing Mahler 10: Unfinished Business." The Musical Times, vol. 142, no. 1877 (Winter 2001): 43-51. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
        • Carpenter, Clinton A. "The Tenth Symphony - A Continuing Study (Part I)." Originally published by the Dutch Mahler Society. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 3 (December 2003): 14-16. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Carpenter, Clinton A. "The Tenth Symphony - A Continuing Study (Part II)." Originally published by the Dutch Mahler Society. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 4 (March 2004): 9-11. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Chew, Teng-Leong. "Performing Versions of the Tenth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 2 (September 2002): 8-11. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Coburn, Steven D. "Cyclic and Referential Elements in Mahler's Tenth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 2 (September 2006): 2-19. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Coburn, Steven D. "Mahler's Sketches for the Tenth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 3 (December 2005): 13-18. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
        • Steinberg, Michael. "Mahler's Tenth Symphony." (.pdf)
    • [+] Other Works
      • Filler, Susan M. "Gustav Mahler's Unknown Scherzo in C Minor and Presto in F Major." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2003): 2-6. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
  • [+] Reception
    • [+] Mahler: Performance History
      • Calomino, Salvatore. "The Legacy of George Szell and his Performances of Works by Mahler." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 2 (September 2007): 8-10. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Hoeper, Jan. "Lob des Hohen Verstands (In Praise of High Intellect)." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 2 (September 2002): 3-4. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Hoeper, Jan and Teng-Leong Chew. "Mahler and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: A Century in Performance." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 2 (September 2002): 2-3. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Lert. Ernst J. M. "The Conductor Gustav Mahler -- A Psychological Study." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 2 (September 2004): 8-14. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • "Mahler in New York." New York Philharmonic Insights Series.
      • Ruttenberg, Stan. "The Colorado MahlerFest -- A Brief History." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 3 (December 2004): 9-11. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Wagner, Mary. "How Mahler Brought Bach to America." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 2 (September 2005): 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • [+] Mahler et al.
      • Anderson, Martin. "Edward R. Reilly: Obituary." The Independent, U.K. (July 14, 2004).
      • Battey, Bret. "The 'Pernerstorfer Circle.'"
      • Brilla, Martin. "Hans Rott - The Founder of the New Symphony." Internationale Hans Rott Gesellschaft Wien.
      • Clark, Sedgwick. "Bernstein's Mahler: A Personal View." Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (Fall/Winter 2002).
      • Cyphers, Jim. "New Recordings Cast Light on Bruckner's Ninth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 4 (March 2004): 12-15. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Goldsmith, Melissa Ursula Dawn. "Context, Theme, and Tone in Adorno's Writings about Mahler and His Music." Naturlaut, vol. 5, no. 1: 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • McColl, Sandra. "Max Kalbeck and Gustav Mahler." 19th-Century Music, vol. 20, no. 2 (Autumn 1996): 167-184. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
      • McGrath, William J. "Student Radicalism in Vienna." Journal of Contemporary History 2, no. 3 (July 1967): 183-201. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
      • Micznik, Vera. "Music and Narrative Revisited: Degrees of Narrativity in Beethoven and Mahler." Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 126, no. 1 (2001): 193-249. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
      • Mitchell, Donald. "Mahler and Freud." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 8 (1958): 63-68. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 2 (September 2003): 10-12. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Morgan, Robert P. "Ives and Mahler: Mutual Responses at the End of an Era." Nineteenth-Century Music, vol. 2, no. 1 (July 1978): 72-81. (Requires access to JSTOR.)
      • Mortensen, Scott. "A Charles Ives Website."
      • Nebel, Grant. "Presence: Mahler and New Music." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 4 (March 2005): 7-10. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Newlin, Dika. "Arnold Schoenberg's Debt to Mahler." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 1 (June 2004): 10-12. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Sargeant, Winthrop. "Mahler -- Last of the Romantics." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1940): 35-38. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2003): 7-8. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Walter, Bruno. "Bruckner and Mahler." Chord and Discord, vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 1940): 2-12. Reprinted in Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 3 (December 2005): 9-11. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Youmans, Charles. "'My Time Will Come When His is Over': Mahler and Strauss in the 21st Century." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 1 (June 2007): 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • [+] Mahler and the Other Arts
      • Chang, Lynne. "To the Age its Art, To Art its Freedom." Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 4 (March 2004): 17-18. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Chew, Teng-Leong. "Maurice Sendak's 'What the Night Tells Me.'" Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 3 (December 2003): 2-3. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Hoeper, Jan. "Emil Orlik and Gustav Mahler: A Meeting of Minds." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 1 (2004): 2-3. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Rosar, William. "Hollywood on Mahler." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 20. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Swanson, Curtis. "Mahler and Dostoevsky." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 16-17. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Zychowicz, James L. "Mahler/Mahlered/Mahlered: Images of Mahler in Popular Culture." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 2 (2004): 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • [+] Mahler-Related Compositions
      • Cope, David. "Mahler: An Opera in Five Acts (Libretto)." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 3-14. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Ellis, David B. "Evocations of Mahler: 'Mahlerian' Music by Others." Naturlaut, vol. 4, no. 1 (June 2005): 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Zychowicz, James L. "David Cope and His Opera Mahler." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2007): 2. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • [+] Interviews
      • Chew, Teng-Leong. "In Retrospect: World Premiere of Clinton Carpenter's Completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony." Interview with Gordon Peters. Naturlaut, vol. 2, no. 2 (September 2003): 2-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Crebbin, Tess. "Up Close and Personal: Meeting Jason Starr." Naturlaut, vol. 3, no. 3 (December 2004): 14-16. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Gilboa, Avik. "Avik Gilboa Interviewing Jack Diether." Naturlaut, vol. 1, 1 (June 2002): 2-10. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
      • Gilboa, Avik. "Conversation with Deryck Cooke about Mahler's Tenth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 2 (2002): 5-7. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
    • [+] Miscellaneous
      • Mitchell, Donald. "The 20th Century's Debt to Mahler: Our Debt to Him in the 21st." Keynote address for 14th Colorado Mahler Fest.
      • Monzo, Joseph L. "A Century of New Music in Vienna: From Beethoven to Webern, Featuring Mahler and Schoenberg."
  • [+] Research Tools
    • Glossary of German Instructions in Gustav Mahler's Music
    • "MetOpera Database." Metropolitan Opera Archives.
      A keyword search for "Mahler" turns up numerous items related to the productions that he conducted at the Met.
    • Zychowicz, James L. "Mahler on the Internet: A First Look at MahlerCat." Naturlaut, vol. 6, no. 4 (2008): 8-12. (Requires access to EBSCOhost databases.)
  • [+] Alma Mahler
    • ALMA: A Life Full of Passion

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