Newlin, Dika (1923–2006)

US musicologist and composer. She studied with Austrian-born US composer Arnold Schoenberg, publishing a memoir of her studies with him, Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections, 1938–76 in 1980, and translating several of his works from German into English. She composed three operas, a symphony, and several chamber music pieces. From the 1970s, she performed punk rock music in Richmond, Virginia.

Her 1947 dissertation was later published as the book Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg (1968). She taught at a number of universities, and in 1952 she established a music department at Drew University, New Jersey. A documentary film, Dika: Murder City (1995), explores her life.