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University of California Pressis collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to 19th-Century Music. Mahler. IX. Symphonie. Partiturentwurf der ersten drei Satze. Faksimile nach der Handschrift. Edited by Erwin Ratz. Vienna: Universal Edition, 1971. [4], 54, 48, 45 pp. A Performing Edition of the Draft for the Tenth Symphony. Prepared by Deryck Cooke, in collaboration with Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews, David Matthews. New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc. and London: Faber Music, 1976. xlii, 193 pp. Verwirrung weicht, und Ordnung keimt empor. -The Creation "I should now like to call my deepest and most subtle art the art of transition, for the whole fabric of my art is built upon such transitions. ... .," This art of transition, so fervently delineated by Wagner in that now famous self-revelation to Mathilde Wesendonck, is central to a comprehension of late nineteenth-century compositional thinking and has been a major theme of modem commentators from Schoenberg to Dahlhaus.2 The linkage of short musical ideas together to form ever larger wholes, the sequential treatment of smaller and of larger units, the invention of modes of connection of one unit to another: these are the techniques of succession and continuation-of "unendliche Melodie," the means by which circuitous or deceptive harmonic motion was achieved by Wagner and the younger generation of Wagnerians. Not only did such techniques contradict traditional tonal balances, but they also affected traditional symmetries of phrase, sentence, and period structure, and the consequent large-scale rhythm of the music, while profoundly pervading instrumental space. It was with a powerful feeling of recognition that Mahler read for the first time the Wagner-Wesendonck correspondence, writing in June 1904 to his wife of its "transcendent and superhuman" nature when compared to the music of Brahms he was at that time studying.3 'Letter no. 95, pp. 188-94, in Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonck (Berlin, 1904). Trans. from Wagner: A Documentary Study, ed.
