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(Pa-ro-tan’) fl. c. 1200 French composer Perotin was named by the theorist Anonymous IV as the reviser of the Magnus liber organi originally compiled by Leonin for Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. He stated that Perotin was a gifted composer of works in two, three and four parts, and some surviving pieces are directly attributable to him, for ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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of it. Although no music is directly ascribed to him, it is possible that some of the works in a new edition of the Magnus liber put together by Perotin (fl. c. 1200) were by Leonin. The theorist Anonymous IV, from whose writing both composers are known, said that Leonin was ‘the best worker with organum’, which may ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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older local traditions. Recommended Recording: Knightly Passions: the Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein, New London Consort (dir) Philip Pickett (Decca/L’Oiseau Lyre) Introduction | Medieval Era | Classical Personalities | Perotin | Medieval Era | Classical ...

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composition. Three, sometimes even four voices would be combined in extended works that would have sumptuously exploited the building’s generous acoustics. Composed by a man we know only as Perotin, Viderunt Omnes offers a mesmerizing example of the Notre Dame style. Like many works of the period, its upper voices are composed around a given plainsong melody in ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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Composers of the twentieth century and up to the present have often been drawn to the music of the medieval and Renaissance periods. A relatively early example is Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), who became interested in the fourteenth-century technique of hocket and in the harmonic experiments of the Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1561–1613). Hocket has since inspired many composers, both ...

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