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BEOTTCHER: Sarin is a chemical cousin to many insecticides, known as organal phosphates, and that's how it was discovered.
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There are two distinct textures for the polyphonic works: a “discant” style, in which the two voice parts generally move together (as in the conductus and the Benedicamus tropes), and an “organal” style in which the upper voice part sings a rhapsodic melody against the long-held notes of a lower tenor voice based on a liturgical chant (as in adiutor an the tropped Kyrie: Cunctipotens).
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These are organal phosphate poisons, they are chemically identical, and they kill the same way.
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In the organal section each note of the syllabic / neumatic section of the chant or cantus firmus was set against up to 40 notes in the second voice.
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In the 12th and 13th centuries, measured organum involved the alternation of [[cantus firmus]] organal and discant sections.
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In the organal section each note of the syllabic / neumatic section of the chant or cantus firmus was set against up to 40 notes in the second voice.
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In the organal section each note of the syllabic / neumatic section of the chant or cantus firmus was set against up to 40 notes in the second voice.
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In the 12th and 13th centuries, measured organum involved the alternation of [[cantus firmus]] organal and discant sections.
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In the organal section each note of the syllabic / neumatic section of the chant or cantus firmus was set against up to 40 notes in the second voice.
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