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Depiction of an organ in the Utrecht Psalter. Late 10th century organ, Moissac Abbey. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, [3] dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ.
The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs. Although it is one of the most complex of all musical instruments, the organ has the longest and most involved history and the largest and oldest extant repertoire of any instrument in Western music.
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The term "organon" was first used by Plato (427?-347 b.c.) and Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) to denote any kind of tool; only later did it come to refer specifically to the well-engineered assembly of pipes and bellows that make up the musical instrument known in English as the organ.
The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
May 28, 2018 · The earliest known use of the term, organon, was used by Plato and Aristotle in the 4 th century BC to denote a tool or 'instrument' in a more general sense. In Plato's Republic and in the works of later Greek writers, organon denotes any kind or all kinds of musical instruments.
During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.
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