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Organums are immensely long and intricate
• it used plainchant melodies in long note values in the lowest voice, with
faster-moving voices layered above the plainchant
• plainchant is monophonic vocal music in the medieval church designed to
project religious text
• these polyphonic works preserved the plainchant in the lowest voice, even
while embellishing in the upper voice
Not a “school” in the physical sense ,but more of
a style of writing organum developed by composers at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
Revealing the earliest surviving polyphony that is composed and read from notation and contains more than two voices.
Only two composers came from this school and they were Léonin and his student Pérotin.