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 The first attempts at combining parts to be performed simultaneously, about which anything definite is known, resulted in what was called //Diaphony// or //Organum//, the part to be accompanied (corresponding to our subject or //cantus firmus//) being termed //Principalis//, and the accompaniment, //Organalis//. This accompaniment consisted of fourths, fifths, and octaves, some one of these intervals being continued throughout, either above or below, and sometimes both above and below, the principalis. The first attempts at combining parts to be performed simultaneously, about which anything definite is known, resulted in what was called //Diaphony// or //Organum//, the part to be accompanied (corresponding to our subject or //cantus firmus//) being termed //Principalis//, and the accompaniment, //Organalis//. This accompaniment consisted of fourths, fifths, and octaves, some one of these intervals being continued throughout, either above or below, and sometimes both above and below, the principalis.
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