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Musicologist Fears End of Creativity
The musical creativity which originated during the Renaissance could be terminated by today's technology, a musicologist said here last night.
posed by computers or "chance" could "rule out the free active creativity we ordinarily associate with genius."
Edward Lowinsky, of the University of Chicago, said music com-
Prof. Edward Lowinsky
PROF. LOWINSKY spoke at the last Humanities Series Lecture for the year.
He said musical genius did not emerge during the Middle Ages because all creativity had to be based on theology. Music in the middle ages was considered a science along with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.
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"The balance of ideas of music
had changed." Prof. Lowinsky said. "The composer had begun to emancipate himself from the double standard of mathematics and theology. In the Renaissance we encounter the term 'musical genius' in the writings on music."
Prof. Lowinsky was the first music history scholar to win a Guggenheim Fellowship and the first invited to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He asked, "Are we turning to a concept of music as mathematics. Or are we actually turning music into a concept of mathematical science?
Musicology refers to investigation of music history documents.
"ARE WE SEARCHING for a new objective in which the computer replaces the invention? Are we delivering ourselves to total organization or chance?"
"Any work of genius must exceed the ordinary," he said, "yet the extraordinary and the impermissible must rely on the ordinary unless it loses its organic background and meaning."
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