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-'''Leonin''', along with his student [[Pérotin|Perotin]] is one of the earliest composers known to us by name.
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-[[Image:Leonin&Perotin.jpg|left]]
-Very little is known about the life of Leonin, except that he was born in Paris in 1135 and died in approximately 1201. He received his training at the [[Notre Dame Cathedral]] school in [[Paris]] and later became a priest at Notre Dame. The writings of Anonymous IV, an English theorist who worked in the late 13th century, are the only source of information about the composer.
-For most of his life, he worked in a church called "Beatae Mariae Virginis" and very likely worked as a choirmaster in the completed Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. He is especially known for his development and original writing of [[polyphony|polyphonic]] music (music that has two or more lines occurring at the same time), in a style known as [[Ars Antiqua]] (the ancient art).
-Leonin's compositions were based on the [[Gregorian chant]]s. The original chant served as the foundation or [[cantus firmus]] and a second voice, called the [[descant]], was added to the original chant. This style came to be known as [[organum]]. One of Leonin's major contributions to music was a collection of organum with two-part settings of portions of the mass known as the [[Magnus Liber Organi]], of which three are the most well-known:
-* Alleluia Pascha nostrum
-* Haec dies quam fecit Dominus
-* Viderunt Omnes
-==Links==
-http://www.hypermusic.ca/comp/leonin.html
-http://stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html?composerfiles/leonin1201.html
-[[Category:Composers]]

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