organum

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Brasser's son, Jim, added bass harmonies to the family tunes and so the distinctive Copper Family style began to emerge – carefully arranged and pitched with a tuning fork, reminiscent of a medieval organum.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2011

And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum organum: a puzzled inflection of star stuff, a mote of mind that glitters for a moment on the grand galactic stream.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oldest surviving manuscript of two-voice parallel organum in the world can be found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as part of a book called the Winchester Troper.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

But the heady excitement of turning one tune into two at no extra cost had another spin-off: organum where one voice stood still instead.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

As time went on, more adventurous musicians, such as the ninth-century Byzantine composer Kassia of Constantinople, began mixing the parallel organum style with the drone style.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall