Canon
Where to start with Pérotin
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
VocalAlleluia: Nativitas
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VocalAlleluia: Posui adiutorium
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VocalBeata viscera
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VocalBenedicamus Domino
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VocalDum sigillum summi Patris
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VocalEt valde
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VocalMors
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VocalSederunt principes
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VocalViderunt omnes
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Pérotin's catalogueMost Popular
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Viderunt omnes (4 voices)
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Sederunt principes (4 voices)
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Beata viscera (2 voices)
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Dum sigillum summi patris (2 voices)
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Alleluia Nativitas
Most Acclaimed
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Viderunt omnes
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Sederunt principes
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Alleluia Nativitas
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Organum triplum and quadruplum (complete)
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Beata viscera
Most Weird
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Viderunt omnesthe bass voice (tenor) holds a single Gregorian chant note for over a minute while three upper voices create a texture of rhythmic modes above it
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Sederunt principes8-minute piece — the tenor’s two notes last approximately 4 minutes each; structurally alien to modern ears
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Organa quadrupla (complete)four-voice organum — the first major 4-voice works in Western music; 1198-1200
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Rhythmic modes in practicethe upper voices use the six rhythmic modes — the first notated rhythm system in Western music
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Alleluia Posui adiutorium
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 9
- Vocal
- Alleluia: Nativitas
- Alleluia: Posui adiutorium
- Beata viscera
- Benedicamus Domino
- Dum sigillum summi Patris
- Et valde
- Mors
- Sederunt principes
- Viderunt omnes