Organum is a musical style based on plainchant. While one voice sings the primary chant melody, at least one other voice sings along to enhance the harmony. This style is important to musicians, particularly music theorists, because it served as the basis for the development of true counterpoint. Early organum was present prior to 1000 A.D. Works in this early style developed mainly from the ...
Free Organum: Two of organum’s greatest innovators are Léonin and Pérotin – “the first international composers of polyphonic music”. They promoted the next development after parallel organum – the practice of free organum. The earliest examples of this style dating from around 1020–1050 utilize parallel motion and oblique motion with the upper voice moving while the tenor (lower ...
Organum reached its height at the hands of the composers at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Leoninus and his successor Perotinus perfected a style of florid or melismatic organum that must have been astonishing to the people of their day.
Although few people can name even three black classical composers, the Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine can name 350. Pine’s RBP Foundation Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has ...
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