Richard Strauss's orchestral music and the German intellectual tradition : the philosophical roots of musical modernism / by Youmans, Charles Dowell, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The first cycle of tone poems : genesis of a critical musical technique ; Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss : crystallization of a persona ; Absolute music, twentieth-century aesthetics, and the symphonies of Richard Strauss.…”