ORGANUM meaning: Medieval music, early polyphonic composition

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organum: Merriam-Webster
organum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
organum, organum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
organum: Collins English Dictionary
Organum, organum: Wordnik
organum: Wiktionary
organum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
organum: Infoplease Dictionary
organum: Dictionary.com
Organum (album), Organum (band), Organum (instrument), Organum (musical instrument), Organum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Organum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
Organum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
organum: FreeDictionary.org
organum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

organum: Global Glossary
Essentials of Music (No longer online)
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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organum: Encyclopedia

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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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organum: Medical dictionary

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organum: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (organum)

▸ noun: (music) A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
▸ noun: (archaic) A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.

Opposite:

non-organum, disorganized, unstructured

Phrases:

Novum Organum, more...

Adjectives:

parallel, free, melismatic, strict, medieval, new, early, old, part, famous, measured

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