Re: Sephardic shul

[Michael Zvi Krumbein <krumbein...>]

Matthew Fields writes:

> Whoopsy, somebody said singing in fourths was from early Gregorian
> chant.  Forgive me if I'm outa it, but isn't that already organum?
> Early Gregorian chant sounds a lot more like Torah trope to my ears.
> And of course, Jews may have participated in the organum trend, but I don't
> know of any documentation of it except the after-the-fact bit of modern
> shuls doing it.  As folks mentioned here, Jews were pretty active in the
> musical "renaissance" and "baroque" movements (a reference to the
> New York Pro Musica Antiqua's records of Salomone Rossi goes here).
> But I don't know of any cantus firmus shabbat services (---but for
> a proper fee I'd make one up!).
> -Matt

Could you translate a couple of those terms for us non-music specialists?
(organum, firmus)
This sounds kind of interesting.....
mzk

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