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1.8: Perotinus (Pérotin)

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The example of organum on our listening list is one of Perotinus’s best known works: Viderunt Omnes. This page discusses the composer that perfected the Notre Dame style of organum. Please pay close attention to the description of Notre Dame style organum that Pérotin wrote.

Introduction

Pérotin (fl. c. 1200), also called Perotin the Great, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style. He was one of very few composers of his day whose name has been preserved, and can be reliably attached to individual compositions; this is due to the testimony of an anonymous English student at Notre Dame known as Anonymous IV, who wrote about him and his predecessor Léonin. Anonymous IV called him “Magister Perotinus” (“Pérotin the Master”). The title, employed also by Johannes de Garlandia, means th

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Perotin (fl.c.1200) - A discography

  • Alto ALC 1004 [CD]
    A Medieval Christmas
    Pro Cantione Antiqua & Medieval Wind Ensemble

  • Ambroisie AM 195
    Le Mystère des Templiers
    Various performers

  • Arcana 399 [CDx5]
    Knights, Maids, and Miracles
    The Spring of Middle Ages
    La Reverdie

  • Archiv Codex Series 453 162
    Messe de Nostre Dame
    Machaut / Dufay - 5 Sacred Songs
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape

  • Arion ARN 68181
    Chansons et danses au temps des Cathédrales - La Fête sur le Parvis Nostre-Dame
    La Maurache

  • Ars Nova CDAN 172 [CD]
    Musique de Notre Dame au Moyen-Age
    Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.

  • Collection Rencontre CR119309 [CD]
    Musique médiévale
    Ensemble Xeremia

  • Concert baroque CBF067 / ISBN 2-84349-013-8 [CD/booklet]
    Concert baroque No 67 Histoire de la musique ancienne et baroque
    Sequentia, Deller consort, Schola Basiliensis

  • Coro 16064 (4 CDs)
    Hilliard Live - The Collection
    The Hilliard Ensemble

  • DG Archiv 415 292
    Music of the Gothic Era
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow

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    Pérotin

    Period:Medieval

    Born: c. 1160

    Died: c. 1205

    Nation of Origin: France

    Major Works:

    Perotin is one of the earliest known composer of polyphonic organum. His works and the works of his contemporary, Leonin, are classified as Notre Dame Organum.
    Sederunt principes, his famous 4-voice organum
    He also revised Leonin's Magnus liber organi de graduali et antiphonario pro servitio divino multiplicando (The Great Book of Organum), 2-voice organum settings for services throughout the church year

    Other Information:

    Little is known about the life of Perotin. His birth date is probably between 1155 and 1160 but his death date is unknown and can only be estimated. He worked in a church called "Beatae Mariae Virginis" and later worked as a choirmaster in the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. He is one of the earliest known composers of polyphonic church music known as "organum". Organum involved a simple doubling of the chant at an interval of a fifth or fourth above or below. As organum evolved, the voices became increasingly independent creating polyphony as we kn

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