* Paul Henry Lang; Editor of Musical Quarterly for 40 Years

Paul Henry Lang, 90, who helped shape the field of musicology through his writing and editing of Musical Quarterly for nearly 40 years. Lang’s “Music in Western Civilization” has become a standard text in the field since its publication in 1941 and is renowned for its melding of music, culture and history into a sweeping overview of separate eras. He also was a Handel biographer, taught for many years at Columbia University and was chief music critic of the old New York Herald Tribune from 1954 to 1965. In Lakeville, Conn., on Saturday.