What is organum?
Organum is a musical style based on plainchant. While one voice sings the primary melody of singing, at least one other voice sings to strengthen harmony. This style is important for musicians, especially music theorists, because it served as the basis for the development of real counterpoint.
Early organum was present before 1000 A.D. Work in this early style developed mainly from the Gregorian singing of the Catholic Church. It was primarily parallel in the structure, which means that the vocal lines moved in the same direction. The added voice that does not say, vox organalis, was usually transposed by a consonant interval with the singing line, vox princtialis.
Most of the early organum used octaves, quarters and fifths as a result of the demand for consonant harmony. The vox organalis lines were not usually written and instead were carried out by trained singers who understood how to construct simple harmony "ear". The work was thus intshonel as a real polyphony or more voted music, but only meKO reinforced individual melodic concepts. These strengthening were considered to be more famous or complex than one line in itself, so musicians often used the organum to emphasize exceptional parts of the liturgy.
During the medieval period, the composers began to push previously accepted musical boundaries to evolve more complex "free" organum. The main development, which occurred shortly after the first millennium, was experimenting with a sloping and opposite movement. In oblique movement, vox organalis moved away from the vox line Prince. On the contrary, the movement of both lines moved apart. With this development came the possibility of real melodic independence in every music line, which determined the stage for a more modern counterpoint.
The organum reached the peak around the 12th century by the development of "Floride" or "melismatic" organum. In this style, vox organizis has up to six notes for each individual note vox princialis. The resultThis type of singing harmonization was that the values of notes in the melody of singing, although they were still naturally moving, were extended and became more like a drone, with sophisticated singing in Vox Princialis to build up to harmonious changes. To distinguish between this newer method and older styles, notes-notes were called a disc, while the new style was called "organum purum", "organum duplum" or simply "organum".
The two main schools of organic composition during the flower were Saint-Martial of Limoges School and Notre Dame of Paris School. It was through these schools that the organum was increasingly improving and formalizing. As far as composers from these schools are concerned, the most important individuals were Léonin or Leoninus and his successor to Pérotin or Perotinus. At a time when he was singing singing, it was not uncommon for the organum to include at least three or four different parts. With the ability to use any type of musical movement, write melodic and harmonious concepts and have a line of assignmentEach type of voice type for increased range and complexity, composers who followed, had all the tools they needed to write counterpoint vocal and other music.