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What Is Organum And What Are The Types Of Organum?

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What Is Organum And What Are The Types Of Organum? Organum is a genre of Medieval polyphonic music (music with two or more simultaneous, different voice parts) that reached the peak of its sophistication during the late 1100s-early 1200s in France. In organum, new music would be composed and sometimes improvised on top of the

What Is An Organum?

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What Is An Organum? Organum, plural Organa, originally, any musical instrument (later in particular an organ); the term attained its lasting sense, however, during the Middle Ages in reference to a polyphonic (many-voiced) setting, in certain specific styles, of Gregorian chant. What is an example of organum? “Benedicamus Domino” is a perfect example of the