I am FLOORED by the beauty of Organum of the early Medieval music in general , especially when they started combining parallel singing, contrary and oblique motion with the handling of dissonance of the time.
This is how our western music was conceived and how it started (with lots of misunderstood concepts from the Greeks).
There's something about the Church modes, the lines, the cadences, the handling of DISSONANCE, etc. It's so damn interesting to learn this stuff, as it allows a great understanding of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, as well as more modern linear writing styles such as Hindemith's and Schoenberg's.
For your listening pleasure, here is an early example of the beginnings of Organum...
And here is a more complex example with a more modern take, with one of my favourite bands of all time> Dead Can Dance.
Listen to the modal interchange in the vocal lines! It's gorgeous! From Aeolian to Mixolydian b6 to Harmonic Minor !! (in the solo vocal parts) There's nothing like beautiful simple sung modal melodies... And Lisa Gerard is... well, wonderful. Just listen and enjoy!
Is anyone here into this stuff? Any early modal counterpoint users here?
It definitely looks like I've found one of my 2020 obsessions...
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