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Edward Lowinsky

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He did significant work preparing editions of Renaissance composers and was a major figure in redefining standards for critical editions of musical manuscripts. Most of his published articles were collected into the massive two-volume
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America. His 1946 work on the "secret chromatic art" of Renaissance motets was hotly debated in its time, spurring considerable research into the issues of
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Lowinsky studied piano, composition, and conducting in Stuttgart at the Hochschule für Musik, 1923–28. In 1933, he obtained his Ph.D. from the
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Das Antwerpener Motettenbuch Orlando di Lasso’s und seine Beziehungen zum Motettenschaffen der niederländischen Zeitgenossen
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Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: its Poetic and Pictorial Sources
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series from 1964 to 1977, and chaired the 1971 conference on
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and other Essays
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musicologist
World War II
musica ficta
performance practice
early music
Stuttgart
Germany
University of Heidelberg
Heinrich Besseler
Orlando di Lasso
Netherlands
United States
United States citizen
Black Mountain College
Queens College, New York
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago
Josquin des Prez
Bonnie J. Blackburn
Howard Mayer Brown
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Guide to the Edward E. Lowinsky Papers 1920-1986
University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
Categories
1908 births
1985 deaths
20th-century American musicologists
Josquin scholars
Scholars of Renaissance music

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