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Any of several types of vocal polyphonic music, in two, three, or four parts, of the 9th to the early 13th century.
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ORGANUM - Organum () is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages. Depending on the m...
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| an early type of polyphonic music based on plainsong with an accompaniment sung below or above the melody. |
| An early type of polyphonic music based on plainsong with an accompaniment sung below or above the melody. |
| Any of several types of medieval vocal polyphony, usually based on Gregorian chant. |
| Variant of organon. |
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| Organum () is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages. Depending on the mode and form of the chant, a supporting bass line (or bourdon) may be sung on the same text, the melody may be followed in parallel motion (parallel organum), or a combination of both of these techniques may be employed. As no real independent second voice exists, this is a form of heterophony. In its earliest stages, organum involved two musical voices: a Gregorian chant melody, and the same melody transposed by a consonant interval, usually a perfect fifth or fourth. In these cases the composition often began and ended on a unison, the added voice keeping to the initial tone until the first part has reached a fifth or fourth, from where both voices proceeded in parallel harmony, with the reverse process at the end. Organum was originally improvised; while one singer performed a notated melody (the vox principalis), another singersinging |