Classical Music Spotlight - Sacred Music from Notre Dame

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DATE : Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:58:00 -0500
Entered in Database : 2006-12-22 14:58:00
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From plainchant via simple 9th-century harmonies and the virtuosic duets of Master Leonin, known as organum, this hauntingly beautiful sequence charts the birth of polyphony up to the first music in four independent parts composed by Master Perotin and sung during the liturgy at the new Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. From the official laying of the cornerstone in 1163 to the completion of the famous Western facade almost a hundred years later, Notre Dame was the fertile home of singers and composers whose extraordinary handiwork has come down to us in the magnus liber organi, the'Great Book of Organum'.

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