The relationship between Gustav Mahler's career as conductor and his symphonic writing has remained largely unexplored territory with respect to his provocative

"Studies of affect and emotions have blossomed in recent decades across the humanities, neurosciences, and social sciences. In music scholarship, they have ofte

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An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.