[20] PÉROTIN (PÉROTIN (Magister Perotinus)
BORN: Paris (?), c. 1160
DIED: c. 1203 or 1225
So usually I find liturgical stuff to be a slight deterrent because often I find that composers in that realm have a tendency to make some boorish stuff with organ hymns and your standard Christian choral feeling type stuff. But I poked around and I was relieved to find a track I liked. Classical is not my favorite genre, but it is completely varied in it's versatility. I think it's honestly a funny sounding tune. Someone in the comments said it was intended for the feast of St. Steven. So that's why it's so upbeat and jolly, that makes sense. I like all the "HA HUH HUH HUH AH HUH HUH HUH" vocal arrangements. Not the typical solemn monk music platitudes or Gregorian chant type stuff. This is that underground monk music that only the cool monks listen to:
"Perotin - Organum quadruplum "Sederunt principes" (ca.1200)" Performers unnamed.
And now for any quick points in his life summation that may be interesting -
Lol his nicknames were "Little Pierre," and "Petey" which is cool.
Many details about his life are "shadowy," but it seems he may have been an assistant and student to Léonin, who was apparently "pivotal to the history of Western music." He is well known for revising Léonin's "Big Book of organa" and is supposed to have invented "organa for 3 and 4 voices" which was the start of further "polytechnic developments" in the next 100 years of music to come. The rest is mostly musical technical explanation of his composition techniques and his many works. 13 organa and 3 conducti and secular works in the cantus firmus, in monkspeak.
Well, that'll do it for my first post. Hope someone finds this awesome sounding track kinda funny like I did.
- M
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