Madrigal vs Organum - What's the difference?
madrigal | organum |
(music) a song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy
(music) a polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy
a short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music
(music) a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong
(archaic) A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
* 1794 , George Adams, Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy
* 1823 , Thomas Wirgman, An Entirely New, Complete and Permanent Science of Philosophy
In lang=en terms the difference between madrigal and organum
is that madrigal is a polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy while organum is a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.madrigal
English
(wikipedia madrigal)Noun
(en noun)organum
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(wikipedia organum)Noun
(organa)- He has given us an organum of a different origin and construction from that of Arislotle
- Another important circumstance respecting our transcendental esthetics is, that it does not insinuate itself merely as a plausible hypothesis, but is as certain and indubitable as we can require any theory to be in order to serve as an organum .