Pérotin famous works

Perotinus Magister (P�rotin)
Biography

Perotin, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the twelfth century.

Perotin's works are preserved in the Magnus Liber, the "Great Book" of early polyphonic church music, which was in the collection of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

The Magnus Liber also contains the works of his slightly earlier contemporary L�onin. However, attempts by scholars to place Perotin at Notre Dame have been inconclusive, and very little is known of his life.

Perotin the great biography wikipedia Pérotin (died ?, Paris?, France) was a French composer of sacred polyphonic music, who is believed to have introduced the composition of polyphony in four parts into Western music. Nothing is known of Pérotin’s life, and his identity is not clearly established.

His music, and that of L�onin, have been grouped together as the "School of Notre Dame."

Perotin composed organum, the earliest type of polyphonic music that went beyond the monody of Gregorian and other types of chant. He pioneered the styles of organum triplum and organum quadruplum (three- and four-part polyphony); in fact his Sederunt principes and Viderunt omnes are among only a few organa quadrupla known.

He was one of very few composers of his day to sign his name to any of the music he wrote.

A prominent feature of his compositional style was to take a simple, well-known melody and stretch it out in time, so each syllable was hundreds of seconds long, and then use each of those held notes (the tenor, Latin for "holder", or cantus firmus) as the basis for complex rhythmic harmonies above it.

The result was that one vocal part sang a complex, quickly moving line (a "discant") over the chant below, which was extended to become a slowly shifting drone.

Perotin the great biography Pérotin[n 1] (fl. c. ) was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader ars antiqua musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of his predecessor Léonin, with the introduction of three and four-part harmonies.

His music influenced modern "minimalist" composers such as Steve Reich, indeed, it can be argued that Perotin himself was a proto-minimalist. His works include Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes, Alleluia posui adiutorum, and Alleluia natiuitas in the organum style as well asDum sigillum and Beata uiscera in the single-melody conductus style.

(The conductus sets a rhymed Latin poem called a sequence to a repeated melody, much like a contemporary hymn.) Later in life he earned the title "Perotin Magister" which means Perotin the master or expert.

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