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Definition of Organum
1. Noun. (music) a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Organum
1. organon [n -GANA or -GANUMS] - See also: organon
Medical Definition of Organum
1. Synonym: organ, organ. Origin: L. Tool, instrument (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Organum
Literary usage of Organum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1901)
"From this it would appear that, notwithstanding the author's formal distinction,
the latter species of organum should properly belong to discant; ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon (1877)
"B Novum organum was published in 1620. Certain prolegomena to the whole of the
Instauratio were prefixed ... Of these the Novum (organum is the nd ; the De ..."
3. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"The Novum organum of Bacon was not intended to supersede the Organon of Aristotle.
Ie (The work of Bacon which was intended to supersede the Organon of ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The <Novum organum' contains the outlines of the scientific or inductive ...
At the beginning of the <Novum organum' we read this first of the series of 18o ..."
5. A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery: From by Arabella Burton Buckley (1879)
"Francis Bacon, his 'Novum organum'—Descartes—Willebrord Snellius ... But his most
useful work was a book called the ' Novum organum,' or 'New Method,' ..."
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