Canon
Where to start with Léonin
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
VocalAlleluya epulmur in azmis
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VocalAlleluya pascha nostrum
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VocalAssumpta est Maria
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VocalCristus resurgens
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VocalEt valde mane una sabbatorum
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VocalGaude Maria Virgo
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VocalLocus iste
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VocalNon vos relinquam, Homo quo vigeas
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VocalOrganum duplum: Judaea et Jerusalem
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VocalVideo celos apertos
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VocalViderunt omnes
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VocalVirgo, Dei genitrix
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Léonin's catalogueMost Popular
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Viderunt omnes (organum for Christmas)
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Haec dies (organum for Easter)
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Benedicamus Domino
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Alleluia Pascha nostrum
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Magnus Liber Organi (selections)
Most Acclaimed
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Magnus Liber Organi (the Great Book of Organum — complete)
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Viderunt omnes
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Haec dies
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Organa for the liturgical year
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Clausulae (discant sections)
Most Weird
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Viderunt omnesa single Gregorian chant note is held by the bass voice for over a minute while upper voices weave improvised-sounding melismas above it
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Benedicamus Dominothe simplest texts become the most architecturally complex polyphony
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Clausulae from Magnus Liberthe rhythmic modes — six medieval rhythmic patterns that represent the first system of rhythmic notation in Western music
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Alleluia Nativitassustained-note organum at its most extreme
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Organa dupla (Magnus Liber complete)the entire book — 57 items covering the liturgical year; music from 1160-1190
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 12
- Vocal
- Alleluya epulmur in azmis
- Alleluya pascha nostrum
- Assumpta est Maria
- Cristus resurgens
- Et valde mane una sabbatorum
- Gaude Maria Virgo
- Locus iste
- Non vos relinquam, Homo quo vigeas
- Organum duplum: Judaea et Jerusalem
- Video celos apertos
- Viderunt omnes
- Virgo, Dei genitrix