Notation Through Time

Organum

Our fourth assignment was to look at an organum composition and try to add chords that would harmonize with the preexisting melody. At first we attempted to use software like Sibelius, but that did not work out too well. So, I moved to a piano and a sheet of black staff paper. This assignment was difficult to me because it caused me to go back to what I learned in theory, so I could make sure that the chords I added would make sense. I ended up recycling the same chords over and over until the melody was over.