Strauss before Liszt and Wagner : some observations / R. Larry Todd -- Miners digging from opposite sides : Mahler, Strauss, and the problem of program music / Stephen E. Hefling -- Extended tonality in Mahler and Strauss / Kofi Agawu -- Ironic allusions to Italian opera in the musical comedies of Richard Strauss / Reinhold Schlötterer -- Strauss and the National Socialists : the debate and its relevance / Pamela M. Potter -- Die Händler und die Kunst : Richard Strauss as composers' advocate / Barbara A. Petersen -- Fiery-pulsed libertine or domestic hero? : Strauss's Don Juan reinvestigated / James Hepokoski -- The concerto for oboe and small orchestra (1945) : remarks about the origin of the work based on a newly discovered source / Günter Brosche -- The metamorphosis of the Metamorphosen : new analytical and source-critical discoveries / Timothy L. Jackson -- The element of time in Der Rosenkavalier / Lewis Lockwood.

Strauss's Intermezzo : innovation and tradition / Bryan Gilliam.