organum

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The trailblazer of this group was called Leonin, and by the standards of the early twelfth century he was both prolific and admired, regularly combining plainsong chant melodies with a second voice, a technique now known as organum duplum.

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Organum became very popular across Europe - and, dare I say it, formulaic to the point of tedium.

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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.

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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.

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As time went on, more adventurous musicians, such as the ninth-century Byzantine composer Kassia of Constantinople, began mixing the parallel organum style with the drone style.

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