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Pérotin
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Pérotin () was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of his predecessor Léonin, with the introduction of three and four-part harmonies.
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Pérotin was a male composer and musicologist from the medieval music movement. Born in Paris in 1155, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of France and spoke Latin. He died in the Kingdom of France on January 1, 1230. His musical output is associated with the ars antiqua genre and polyphonic styles.
Records indicate that Pérotin is credited with five works. He is referenced by 242 other encyclopedia articles. On the Last.fm platform, his music has accumulated 214,255 plays from 42,182 listeners, with tags including medieval, early music, Classical, and french.
Note: The Open Library entry for "Yves Pérotin" lists different works, such as *De quoi riaient-ils?* and *Manuel d'archivistique tropicale*, which are distinct from the medieval composer described above.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1160
- Active to
- 1230
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42,182
- Total plays
- 214,255
Tags
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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Does ownership always matter?
· 1991 · cited 118x
- Entry, exit, and the business cycle: Are cooperatives different?
· 2006 · cited 106x
- Productivity, Capital, and Labor in Labor-Managed and Conventional Firms: An Investigation on French Data
· 2012 · cited 90x
- Does hospital ownership affect patient experience? An investigation into public–private sector differences in England
· 2013 · cited 53x
- On Maximal Green Sequences
· 2013 · cited 50x
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Pérotin
- Person.other_names
- Perotinus, Perrotinus, Perotinus Magnus, Magister Perotinus
- Person.occupation
- Composer
- Person.known_for
- Polyphony
- Person.notable_works
- Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes, Alleluia Nativitas
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Pérotin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Identity and career
- Historical context
- Notre Dame School
- ''Magnus liber organi''
- Music
- Forms and style
- Compositions
- Works
- Influence
- Recordings
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Pérotin () was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of his predecessor Léonin, with the introduction of three and four-part harmonies.
Other than a brief mention by music theorist Johannes de Garlandia in his De Mensurabili Musica, virtually all information on Pérotin's life comes from Anonymous IV, a pseudonymous English student who probably studied in Paris. Anonymous IV names seven titles from a Magnus Liber—including Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes and Alleluia Nativitas—that have been identified with surviving works and gives him the title Magister Perotinus (Pérotinus the Master), meaning he was licensed to teach. It is assumed that Perotinus was French and named Pérotin, a diminutive of Peter, but attempts to match him with persons in contemporary documents remain speculative.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pérotin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.