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Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs.

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Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs. By Raymond Knapp. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. [xx, 320 p. ISBN 0-8195-6635-7. $70.00 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8195-6636-5. $24.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.

The large number of articles, chapters, and books on Mahler's music that have appeared in the past ten years proves that this--once--ambivalent area of scholarship has come a long way. It is possibly a testimony to the continuing ambivalent nature of the field of Mahler research that some of these first-rate studies are still available only in unpublished dissertations (see, for example, Elizabeth Abbate's "Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mahler's Early Symphonies" [Harvard University, 1996]; Morten Solvik Olsen's "Culture and the Creative Imagination: The Genesis of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony" [University of Pennsylvania, 1992]; and John R. Palmer's "Program and Process in the Second Symphony of Gustav Mahler" [University of California, Davis, 1996]). Although naturally indebted to the monumental work of pioneers such as Henry-Louis de la Grange, Donald Mitchell, Deryck Cooke, and Constantin Floros, these researchers...

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