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A critical reply is presented to the article "Musik – Einheit und Vielfalt ihrer kulturellen Ausprägung," by Rolf Oerter. The author discusses Oerter's thesis on the biological and evolutionary foundations of music. The author also states that Oerter's use of research results is strangely selective, and there is no use of the research that came out of East Germany on the topic of musical evolution.

This paper puts the compact disc in perspective as a not so unique technological novelty and a market commodity, questions the musical relevancy of its “fidelity"(?), and denounces the narrowness of its repertoire, in which there is no place for new music whatsoever. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]