Contemporaneous Choral Music in Germany--Richard Strauss: _Wanderers Sturmlied_; _Taillefer_; Motets--Taubmann: _Eine Deutsche Messe_; _Sängerweihe_; Georg Schumann: _Ruth_; _Totenklage_ and other works--Max Reger’s choral compositions; Schönberg: _Gurrelieder_; ‘Transfigured Night’; _Pierrot lunaire_--Other choral writers of the present; Felix Draeseke’s _Christus_; Wolfrum’s _Weinachtsmysterium_; Albert Fuchs; Wilhelm Platz; August Bungert’s _Warum? Woher? Wohin?_; Felix Woyrsch: _Totentanz_ and other works; Wilhelm Berger’s _Totentanz_; Karl Ad. Lorenz: _Das Licht_; other contributors to modern German choral literature. The historian or reviewer of contemporaneous events is naturally confronted with a problem of greater complexity and perplexity than when he is taking account of, and giving valuation to, the events and works of a past generation, even though it be in the immediate past. There are always present too many forces and tendencies in the making, to be able to see them as the next generation will see them--more nearly in their right perspective. And so some reader twenty-five years hence may chance to read these chapters on present-day music as seen through present-day eyes and may wonder that this or that composer is barely mentioned by name or by work. Yet this method of mere tabulation must of necessity be resorted to where works have only recently been published and have as yet found but small public recognition; for this volume is primarily a volume of record, not of prophecy. In each country, however, present musical conditions are nourished by the survival of tendencies and styles from the last generation and by new forces that at present appear in the guise of mere individualism. Contemporaneous choral music in Germany largely represents the negation of older traditions, Handelian and Mendelssohnian, in thought and construction; the after-development and carrying over into the oratorio and cantata field of the principle of the Wagnerian leading-motive; and, especially, the florescence of the modern spirit of unconstrained freedom of individual expression within very broadly defined artistic limitations. I