organum
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Brasser's son, Jim, added bass harmonies to the family tunes and so the distinctive Copper Family style began to emerge – carefully arranged and pitched with a tuning fork, reminiscent of a medieval organum.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2011
And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum organum: a puzzled inflection of star stuff, a mote of mind that glitters for a moment on the grand galactic stream.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oldest surviving manuscript of two-voice parallel organum in the world can be found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as part of a book called the Winchester Troper.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
If we imagine parallel organum as a train track winding across the landscape, the drone style looked more like a graph in which one line moves and the other stays constant.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
But the heady excitement of turning one tune into two at no extra cost had another spin-off: organum where one voice stood still instead.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Winchester’s Troper of two-voice organa manuscripts and its mighty four- hundred-voice pipe organ were the work of Anglo-Saxon Christians.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
A commentator on Aristotle, writing in the 4th century A.D., calls certain instruments used for fusion and calcination "chuika organa," that is, instruments for melting and pouring.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
