Leonin presentation
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Leonin was a 12th century French composer who worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He is considered the first significant composer of organum, an early form of polyphonic music based on Gregorian chant. Leonin developed modal notation to symbolize rhythm in organum, laying the basis for modern musical notation, and composed the "Magnus Liber", a book of organum that was later expanded by his student Perotin.
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Leonin presentation
- 1. Leonin More than a composer.
- 2. •French composer of the 12th century •Born in Paris, receive d training and later worked at the Notre Dame Cathedral
- 3. •First-known significant composer of organum •Organum = the earliest polyphonic music, based on Gregorian chant •Style came to be known as “Notre Dame Polyphony” (florid organum with a sense of meter)
- 4. •Leonin was the first to develop “modal notation” to symbolize rhythm, which laid the basis for notation as we know it. •Composed “Magnus Liber” (a book of organum) •His work was improved and expanded by Perotin, one of his students.