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David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary ed. by David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn

David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary ed. by David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn, eds. David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary Oxford University Press, 2015: ix + 206 pp. ($54.98 cloth) Roger Graybill The publication of David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary in 2015 brought to light a work that had led a sort of subterranean life for over forty years. Written in 1974 during a sabbatical leave in Paris, Lewin’s type- written manuscript on Schubert’s song had circulated among a number of graduate students and faculty in the years immediately following. While he later borrowed and adapted a portion of the essay for his article “Music The- ory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception” (Lewin 1986), the original has remained inaccessible to a broad readership until now. The editors of this volume, David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn, are to be commended for the attention and care they have devoted to this important project, which is supplemented by three substantial and informative commentaries by Cohn, Brian Kane, and Henry Klumpenhouwer. Even a cursory overview of Lewin’s text conveys several striking and even idiosyncratic features of the work. Most striking is its sheer length, given the subject matter: Lewin devotes 160 pages to a song consisting of a scant twenty-three http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Music Theory Duke University Press

David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary ed. by David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn

Graybill, Roger
Journal of Music Theory , Volume 62 (2) – Oct 1, 2018
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David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn, eds. David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary Oxford University Press, 2015: ix + 206 pp. ($54.98 cloth) Roger Graybill The publication of David Lewin’s “Morgengruß”: Text, Context, Commentary in 2015 brought to light a work that had led a sort of subterranean life for over forty years. Written in 1974 during a sabbatical leave in Paris, Lewin’s type- written manuscript on Schubert’s song had circulated among a number of graduate students and faculty in the years immediately following. While he later borrowed and adapted a portion of the essay for his article “Music The- ory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception” (Lewin 1986), the original has remained inaccessible to a broad readership until now. The editors of this volume, David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn, are to be commended for the attention and care they have devoted to this important project, which is supplemented by three substantial and informative commentaries by Cohn, Brian Kane, and Henry Klumpenhouwer. Even a cursory overview of Lewin’s text conveys several striking and even idiosyncratic features of the work. Most striking is its sheer length, given the subject matter: Lewin devotes 160 pages to a song consisting of a scant twenty-three

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