Organum

Entertainment / Music / Organum: Earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant: they first ran parallel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth and later moved more freely.
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Organal Style

Entertainment / Music / Organal Style: Organum in which the tenor sings the melody (original chant) in very long notes while the upper voices move freely and rapidly above it. MORE

Idola

Entertainment / Literature / Idola: (Latin, 'idols,' singular form idolum) False images of the mind. Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (1620), classifies the primary fallacies in human thinking as four types: idola tribus, specus, fori, et MORE