Pérotin

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Pérotin (fl. c. 1200) was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony. 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. Anonymous IV called him "Perotin Magister", which means Pérotin the master or expert. The name Pérotin is itself derived from "Perotinus," the Latin diminutive of Petrus, the Latin version of the French name Pierre (just as Léonin comes from "Leoninus," the Latin diminutive of Léo). Works Works attributed to Pérotin include the four-voice Viderunt omnes and Sederunt principes; the three-voice Alleluia, Posui adiutorium, Alleluia, Nativitas, and nine others attributed to him by contemporary scholars on stylistic grounds, all in the organum style; the two-voice Dum sigillum summi Patris, and the monophonic Beata viscera in the conductus style. (The conductus sets a rhymed Latin poem called a sequence to a repeated melody, much like a contemporary hymn.) Pérotin'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 Léonin. However

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LEONIN / PEROTIN: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral

The School of Notre Dame

Perotin (The Hilliard Ensemble)

Pérotin: "Beata viscera Mariae Virginis"

Perotin

Mystery of Notre Dame

Vocal Ensemble Music - Seized By Sweet Desire - Singing Nuns and Ladies, From the Cathedral To the Bed Chamber

Pérotin: Sederunt & Viderunt (Arr. for Guitar)

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Listen, 6th Edition [Disc 1]

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Listen, 6th Edition (Disc 1)

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Veni Domine: Advent & Christmas At The Sistine Chapel

Early Music

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