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What We Know About Perotin

Saturday April 21, 2007
It is quite difficult to find information about composers who lived during the Medieval Period, but one name stands out when we think of composers during this period. Learn a little bit more about Perotin, believed to be the one who introduced four-part polyphony.

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Comments

April 21, 2007 at 11:18 pm
(1) J. Pisano says:

Espie,

Wow! That brought back painful memories of study techniques and the great “Grout” book used in our undergraduate music history classes…

Burned into memory: “Leonin & Perotin, Gregorian Chant. [Pause] duplum, triplum, quadruplum too… organum is important; the test’s at two!”

Nightmares, really. :)

J. Pisano

April 23, 2007 at 7:54 pm
(2) Espie says:

LOL! That’s a cool way to remember important facts, and pretty effective because you still remember it :)

I have one of Grout’s books here, borrowed it from the library. It’s so thick and packed with information.

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