Pérotin
Protin+PEROTIN.jpg At the end of the twelfth century, as the walls of the Cathedral of Notre Dame were slowly raised above the surrounding buildings of Paris, a school of composers associated with this...
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Welcome to the TC Top 50+ Art Song List! This is a continuation of a series of the TC Top Recommended Lists project (which the previous ones can all be seen here ). General discussion of the project...
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I discovered an awesome choral composer yesterday. Perotin is a composer from the 11th century who wrote beautiful, simple music. To me it sounds influenced by folk tunes and doesn't have quite such a...
View ArticleWere Leonin and Perotin the most radical composers ever?
Using polyphony in music was not only a huge step for the development of classical music, but music in general. I think up until that point, most of the known musical traditions other than the Western...
View ArticleGreat compositions before 1600
What are some great compositions before 1600? Some of my favorites so far include: Perotin - Sederunt principes; Viderunt Omnes Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame Josquin - Missa Pange lingua Tallis -...
View ArticleHurt/Heal Great Composers
Hello. This is just an idea a came up with. On a chess forum there was a thread called 'Hurt/Heal World Champions' (Steinitz lost and Fisher (!) was next, if you're interested), in which people could...
View ArticleThe all mighty power of vocal music
At first i did not beleive it but after lisening of Pérotin Gesualdo and hildegard i was flabbergeisted by the hudge range singer have. Pérotin is a ''force majeure'' the classical world had reckon...
View Articleexiting new medieval vocal music cd
So i bought this record of vocal music of early medieval music called ''The miracle of the century'' if you preffer in german since this is a german cd, das wunder des jahrhunderts. executed by...
View Articleclassical music while reading poetry? what do you think of this?
Ockay since i like to fully absorb the music i dont read a lot while lisening to classical since i need glasses or whatever im goeing blind... but thus said , im trying to read Dante's inferno , will...
View Articlepupils vs teachers?
I said to my dad who do you preffer William Byrd or Thomas Tallis, he said he did knew william Byrd but to him Tallis was a nobody... so i said to him hmm well he is his teacher, whiteout Tallis they...
View ArticleGuillaume de Machaut one important composer of is era,among great names
All i heard from him so far, is fine, top notch composer, when it's as instrumental part it's divine... thus said the vocal work life douce dame jolie is amazing and his lament. What should i pick up...
View ArticleDo you like vocal music more than instrumental?
Renaissance vocal music sutch lhildegarde von Bingen , pérotin, guillaume de Machaut, thomas tallis, Carlo Gesualdo and Orlande de lassus has sutch a soul and inner beauty, instrument can match this...
View ArticleThe story of avant-garde trought the age medieval and renaissance until baroque
For some avant-garde started whit Stravinsky or Schoenberg, but we learn trought ancient medieval and renaissance vocal music that avant-garde existed before these guys. The first revolutional music...
View ArticleArs antiqua vs Ars nova, than what about Ars subtilator? medieval classical post
''early medieval'' or late ''medieval period'' So there is something like ars antiqua: hildegard von Bingen, perotin there are ars nova guillaume de Machaut and fransceco Landini Than there is the...
View ArticleRenaissance NON-Sacred Music Recommendations
I've had a couple people recommend that I not limit my listening to sacred music, so if anyone has recommendations for Medieval/Renaissance era compositions that are non-liturgical, religious, sacred,...
View Articleavant-garde in ars antiqua
Before someone would mention Bingen here and people were like hmm yeah ,now people snob ars antiqua(antic arts), what about Pérotin, than we have two name... We hardly know anything fews composer, that...
View Articlears antiqua for dummy 101?
Ockay from what i know, before ars antiqua there were straightfoward monody , one of the composer to show these caracteristic is hermann der cripples, the music is simplistic gregorian chants. Than we...
View ArticleYour Top 10 Composers... Other than the Obvious Ones!
I'm new here, but I've already seen many, many Top X composers, Top X works, etc. polls across the forum. I think we all know the drill - we can't help listing at least some of the most famous...
View Articlears antiqua for dummies 101
Ockay after reading trought the birth of polyphony there are several perriod and schools... Polyphonie aquitaine(South-west France) i really like this perriod École de Notre-Dame, that gave us mighty...
View ArticleWhat is year 0 of avant-garde in classical?
We may never know i was reading an article yesterday archeologist dig up a new codex music has old as 1000 years, they did not cracked it yet until recently. For me of course year zero is the birth of...
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