Studies in Music with Text

by David Lewin

Book Overview

Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in the fields of music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195397037
• ISBN13: 9780195397031
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"