Pérotin

Pérotin ( Perotinus ), also known as " Magister Perotinus " or " Perotinus magnus " known (* 1150-1165; † 1200-1225 ) was Master of the monastery church and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and is the most significant composer of so-called Notre Dame school.

Nothing about his life is preserved, the knowledge ( 1240 ) and Anonymous IV is based on him on statements of John de Garlandia (after 1279 ). His works are preserved in the Magnus liber organi ( Great Book of Organa ).

His history of music performance (at least removes the musicology that from the traditions of Anonymus IV) lies in the development of the two-part Organa his predecessor Léonin at the Cathedral of Notre -Dame to three - and four-part ( Quadruplum ) Organa. With the arrival of a third and fourth voice the free rhythm of Gregorian chant was no longer applicable. It was necessary, the individual voices to give rhythm to the fixed order of the total effluent. Used here Pérotin six different, ajar of ancient versification rhythmic models, the so-called Modalrhythmus.

The Music Treatise of Anonymous IV

In the Music Treatise of Anonymous IV, who incidentally virtually taken over large parts of the treatise of John de Garlandia sentence by sentence, stating that there is probably a time of Perotinus Magnus was, in a very specific notation method ( the Modalnotation ) from him and had been used its predecessors. ("[ ... ] Et hoc tempore illo from quo homines incipiebant talia cognoscere, ut in tempore Perotini Magni et al tempore antecessorum suorum. " )

It continues:

" Et nota, quod magister Leoninus secundum quod dicebatur, fuit optimus organista, qui fecit magnum Librum organic de gradali et antifonario per servitio divino multiplicando. Et fuit usque ad in usu temporis Perotini Magni, qui abbreviavit eundem et fecit cláusulas immersive puncta Plurima meliora, Quoniam optimus discantor erat, et quam melior Leoninus erat. "

" And you realize that the Magister Leoninus, as was reported, the best organist has been; Zinner made the Magnus Liber Organa to the Graduale and Antiphonary to the enrichment of worship. And this book remained in use until the time of Perotinus Magnus, who has cut the same and much better terms and point A created, because he was the best Discantor, even better than Leoninus. "

Last reported Anonymus IV on the work of Perotinus Magnus who created the information in according to Tractate best Quadrupla ( four times Organa ) as the Viderunt omnes and Sederunt with an abundance of Colores harmonious art and beautiful Tripla ( triple Organa ) and conductus.