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  • Written for three male voices, it contains many common aspects of organa composition, including particularly the frequent and interweaving juxtaposition of intervalic consonance with extreme discord.

    Archive 2009-05-01 bls 2009

  • Written for three male voices, it contains many common aspects of organa composition, including particularly the frequent and interweaving juxtaposition of intervalic consonance with extreme discord.

    Pérotin 'Alleluia nativitas' bls 2009

  • Following the tradition of tropes and sequences in the 10th and 11th centuries, organa were composed for feast days.

    Pérotin 'Alleluia nativitas' bls 2009

  • Following the tradition of tropes and sequences in the 10th and 11th centuries, organa were composed for feast days.

    Archive 2009-05-01 bls 2009

  • Musical settings including plainsong and polyphonic conducti, tropes, and organa follow on fols.

    Codex Calixtinus bls 2007

  • Tagged: bail organa · fan art · qui-gon

    2007 July 2007

  • Tagged: bail organa · fan art · qui-gon

    Fan Art: Bring on the snark! 2007

  • Musical settings including plainsong and polyphonic conducti, tropes, and organa follow on fols.

    Archive 2007-10-01 bls 2007

  • Freud remarks about this belief that "Hans was a homosexual (as all children may well be), quite consistently with the fact, which must always be kept in mind, that he was acquainted with only one kind of genital organa genital organ like his own" (SE 10: 110; italics in original).

    Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

  • A commentator on Aristotle, writing in the 4th century A.D., calls certain instruments used for fusion and calcination "_chuika organa_," that is, instruments for melting and pouring.

    The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

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