Talk:Organum

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Contents 1 content discussion: Melismatic organum, organum purum, Apel & Waite having transcribed 'entire' MLO 2 3rd meaning 3 pronunciation 4 style vs. genre

[edit] content discussion: Melismatic organum, organum purum, Apel & Waite having transcribed 'entire' MLO

IMO, the definitions given, the supposed differences etc. given on melism.org. and org.purum are not yet clear enough. As for transcriptions entire: there is an ongoing project at L'Oiseau Lyre Monaco, otherwise no integral transcription exist. Waite focused on dupla by Leonin and did a partial transcription. I will take to my books and come back later on this. Martinuddin (talk) 22:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3rd meaning

There's yet a third meaning of organum, see Organum Mathematicum at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science site.

I guess if we ever get an article on this, we'll also need to create an organum (disambiguation) page, but I don't think it's necessary when we only have two articles to list. Andrewa 14:26, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciation

I noticed an anon today (apparently from the UK) changed the pronunciation to put the stress on the second syllable. I've never heard it this way: always the stress is on the first. Is this possibly a US English/British English difference? Since "organum" isn't exactly an everyday word (except in fields like mine) it may not be something many people pay attention to. I'm putting in that the word may be pronounced either way. Antandrus (talk) 6 July 2005 20:36 (UTC)

Yes - it's a British Isles / European English pronunciation. SleepyHead 18 April 2006 16:38 (GMT)

[edit] style vs. genre

is organum a style or a genre? Jackzhp 12:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

"genre" isn't really an appropriate term for music that early. It's a style distinct from discant and conductus. Chubbles 17:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)