David Lewin

David Benjamin Lewin (July 2, 1933 – May 5, 2003) was an American music theorist, music critic and composer. Called the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation , he did his most influential theoretical work on the development of transformational theory, which involves the application of mathematical group theory to music.

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