Pérotin
French composer
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A composer who worked at Notre Dame around 1200 and pushed polyphony from two voices to three and four — expanding what medieval harmony could hold. Almost everything known about him comes from a single anonymous English student who studied in Paris decades later.
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Pérotin flourished around 1200 in Paris, tied to the Notre Dame school and the ars antiqua style. He built on the polyphonic work of his predecessor Léonin, introducing three- and four-part harmonies where two had been the norm. A music theorist named Johannes de Garlandia mentioned him briefly, but nearly all surviving detail comes from Anonymous IV, a pseudonymous English student who likely studied in Paris and called him Magister Perotinus — a licensed teacher. Anonymous IV named seven titles from a Magnus Liber, including Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes, and Alleluia Nativitas, that mat…
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- What Remains2023
- Thy Kiss of a Divine Nature: The Contemporary Perotin2006
- Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral2005
- La Fête des Fous2005
- The School of Notre Dame1997
- Musik Des Mittelalters: Gregorianischer Choral / Musik Der Gotik1993
- Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II1958
- Guillaume de Machaut: Messe Nostre Dame / Perotinus Magnus: Musique a Notre-Dame de Parius
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