Pérotin

Active c. 1200

A composer associated with the Notre Dame school whose surviving organum settings include works in three and four voices, expanding the scale of medieval polyphony.

13th c. · Ars Antiqua

Musical context

Ars Antiqua · 13th c.

In and around medieval Paris, cathedral culture and the developing university supported increasingly elaborate written polyphony. The music associated with Léonin and Pérotin at Notre Dame provided foundations for later thirteenth-century practice. Musicians developed the motet from existing polyphonic repertories, and theorists such as Franco of Cologne described notation that made rhythmic relationships more explicit. Explore the era →

Related glossary terms

Ars Antiqua Clausula Conductus Motet Rhythmic mode

Pieces

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