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Perotinus Magister (P�rotin)
Biography
Perotin, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the twelfth century.
Perotin's works are preserved in the Magnus Liber, the "Great Book" of early polyphonic church music, which was in the collection of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
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The Magnus Liber also contains the works of his slightly earlier contemporary L�onin. However, attempts by scholars to place Perotin at Notre Dame have been inconclusive, and very little is known of his life. His music, and that of L�onin, have been grouped together as the "School of Notre Dame."
Perotin composed organum, the earliest type of polyphonic music that went beyond the monody of Gregorian and other types of chant.
He pioneered the styles of organum triplum and organum quadruplum (three- and four-part polyphony); in fact his Sederunt principes and Viderunt omnes are among only a few organa quadrupla known. He was one of very few composers of his day to sign hi