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Pérotin
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Pérotin worked around 1200 in Paris, in the years when Notre-Dame cathedral was being built. We know almost nothing about his life; we know his name from an English treatise written half a century later. He had three or four voices sing above a greatly extended Gregorian melody, in fixed, dancing rhythms. His Viderunt omnes, probably for Christmas 1198, is one of the oldest four-voice pieces in European music.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to the long, sustained notes in the lowest voice and hear how three voices above them move in the same skipping rhythm.
Viderunt omnes (Hilliard Ensemble) · Pérotin, 1198- Sederunt principes (Hilliard Ensemble) · Pérotin, 1199
- Alleluia nativitas (Hilliard Ensemble) · Pérotin, 1200
Discography
Studio albums
- 1958Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II
- 1989Perotin
- 1993Musik Des Mittelalters: Gregorianischer Choral / Musik Der Gotik
- 1997The School of Notre Dame
- 2005La Fête des Fous
- 2005Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral
- 2006Thy Kiss of a Divine Nature: The Contemporary Perotin
- 2023What Remains
- ?Guillaume de Machaut: Messe Nostre Dame / Perotinus Magnus: Musique a Notre-Dame de Parius
Mentioned in other articles
- Organum and the Notre-Dame school Genre
Pérotin even wrote for four voices, as in Viderunt omnes, probably for Christmas 1198.
See also
Categories: ArtistsOrganum and the Notre-Dame school