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| 4.0 excellent | musichub | June 29th 21 |
Of the two named members of the Notre Dame school of polyphony, Leonin is the elder of the two
and, perhaps by necessity, the one whose influence has lasted least of all. Before Perotin opted
to add additional voices into his arrangements of chant, however, Leonin's arrangements were the
most complex bits of Western two-part polyphony that have survived to this day. In this, his
setting of the hymn Viderunt omnes, the two voices draw out the titular line for what seems
like an eternity, switching registers and, in the case of the upper voice, singing some gorgeous
melismas. Organum existed before Leonin's time, but his contemporaries claim that he perfected the
style, and it is difficult to disagree after hearing this work.
Tonus Peregrinus (2005): https://open.spotify.com/track/1TCx5p8MDtp71mOsVpHIQG?si=bb2110b24c7b45bc
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