MUS 2331 Study Guide - Whole Note, Musica Enchiriadis, Eighth Note
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Polyphony - music in which there is more than one independent voice. Began as a style of performance, a way to accompany chant through the addition of one or more. Valued as a decorative way of elaborating a melody, and further enhancing the beauty of the. Possible tradition of polyphonic singing before the 13th century: Early european folk traiditions sometimes featured singing against a drone (the modal voices church service final) combinations (used for several types of polyphony from 9th through 13th century) Organum was used for two or more voices singing different notes in agreeable. Organum - two or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations of either parallel fourths or fifths, but had to follow rules outlined in the musica enchiriadis and scolica enchiriadis. Neither one of these treatises were rules for composition; rather, they were rules for singing chant.
