Studies in Music with Text N.K. McCarthy Until then

Until then

Each case provides a neat story with a paradox that varies the modernization theme and tackles the question: why was the project pursued

told from the actual logbook

his generosity to friends and his combativeness

Emphasises the importance of constant personal attention and good communication in labour

Studies in Music with Text N.K. McCarthy Until thenHailed 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