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- What is the difference between a motet and an organum?
- What are the different types of organum?
- What is a Clausulae in music?
- What is a substitute Clausulae?
What is the difference between a motet and an organum?
The motet probably arose from the addition of text to the long melismatic passages of organum. The motet took a definite rhythm from the words of the verse, and as such appeared as a brief rhythmic interlude in the middle of the longer, more chantlike organum.
What are the different types of organum?
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- parallel organum. no real second voice exists/parallel motion/two voices usually at a perfect 5th or 4th.
- converging organum. oblique motion/both start on the same note, separate, and then come back together at the end.
- free organum. contrary motion.
- melismatic organum. ...
- organum purum. ...
- discant.
What is a Clausulae in music?
Clausula, (Latin: “clause”, ) plural Clausulae, in music, a 13th-century polyphonic genre featuring two strictly measured parts: notable examples are the descant sections based on the Gregorian chant melisma (several notes to a syllable), which in the organa of the Notre-Dame school alternated with sections featuring ...
What is a substitute Clausulae?
A passage of (usually) discant preserved separately from its parent organum, in which it could be substituted. Several 13th-century MSS contain separate fascicles of clausulae, with up to twenty different clausula settings of the same tenor fragment.
