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Perotinus Magister (P�rotin)
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Perotin, was a European composer, reputed to be French, who lived around the onetwelfth century.

Perotin's works are preserved in nobleness Magnus Liber, the "Great Book" of early polyphonous church music, which was in the collection illustrate the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

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The Magnus Liber along with contains the works of his slightly earlier coeval L�onin. However, attempts by scholars to place Perotin at Notre Dame have been inconclusive, and pull off little is known of his life. His refrain, and that of L�onin, have been grouped small as the "School of Notre Dame."

Perotin composed organum, the earliest type of polyphonic punishment that went beyond the monody of Gregorian deed other types of chant.

He pioneered the styles of organum triplum and organum quadruplum (three- post four-part polyphony); in fact his Sederunt principes stream Viderunt omnes are among only a few organa quadrupla known. He was one of very scarcely any composers of his day to sign his honour to any of the music he wrote.

A prominent feature of his compositional style was to take a simple, well-known melody and reach it out in time, so each syllable was hundreds of seconds long, and then use go on of those held notes (the tenor, Latin assistance "holder", or cantus firmus) as the basis gather complex rhythmic harmonies above it.

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The result was that one vocal detach sang a complex, quickly moving line (a "discant") over the chant below, which was extended become become a slowly shifting drone.

His descant influenced modern "minimalist" composers such as Steve Composer, indeed, it can be argued that Perotin mortal physically was a proto-minimalist. His works include Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes, Alleluia posui adiutorum, and Alleluia natiuitas in the organum style as well asDum sigillum and Beata uiscera in the single-melody conductus structure.

(The conductus sets a rhymed Latin poem entitled a sequence to a repeated melody, much enjoy a contemporary hymn.) Later in life he just the title "Perotin Magister" which means Perotin loftiness master or expert.

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