Saturday, March 13, 2010

Leonin, Perotin, and Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame de Paris- first Gothic cathedral, 12th and 13th centuries: great intellectual centre for Europe.

Leonin- (~1135-1201), born in Paris, student and priest at Notre Dame, collection of organum with two-part, polyphonic settings of parts (responsorial chants) of mass (Magnus Liber Organi); precise time values in music

Perotin- Leonin's student, revised Magnus Liberi Organi, polyphony: added third and fourth vocal parts, two settings of Graduals for St. Stephen and Christmas in four parts

Haec Dies Organum- attributed to Notre Dame school, ~1200; polyphonic, melismatic, organum with two parts, organal style of writing, upper voice free, chant melody bottom

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