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Title: Pérotin: Viderunt omnes [with score - original manuscript]
Added: Sep 3, 2010
Author: flammesombres
Duration: 11:37
Description:
Pérotin's Viderunt Omnes (1198), performed by the Hilliard Ensemble.The foundation of Viderunt omnes is a plainchant that likely served the Parisian liturgy for Christmas Day. The text comes from verses of Psalm 98 in the Vulgate's Latin (Ps. 98:3b-4a, 2), jubilantly singing of the moment when God's salvation is made known to all the Earth. (Incidentally, the text naturally seems to call for such a concord of many voices!) Following the responsory form of plainchant, Viderunt omnes consists of a solo incipit, a chanted conclusion, a short verset (also perhaps for solo), and a repeat of the opening section. Pérotin's setting preserves the form and retains the liturgically correct chant melody, but embellishes it by two "discant clausulae," sections of composed polyphony that substitute for the solo chants. For each clausula, the choir sings the notes of the chant melody, but each note is greatly extended. Above this abstracted chant is woven a web of three solo voices dancing about one another in long, metrical melismas on the chant syllables. The most astounding innovation of Notre Dame polyphony was the addition of rhythm to such ornamental voices: the upper voices sing dozens of notes above each step of the chant, regulated by the six modal rhythms. The rhythmic patterns possible (which may shift in each voice phrase to phrase) are each related to a poetic foot: long/short (trochaic), short/long (iambic), long/short/short (dactylic), short/short/long (anapestic), long/long (spondeic), and short/short (pyrrhic). Within the limitations of these rhythms, the voices move freely as if by elaborate improvisation. Often sequential melodic motifs are expounded, and in this piece Pérotin even uses canonic relationships between voices. But the power of the piece doesn't come from this intricacy, but rather from the deep sense of harmony. Each phrase begins with a "perfect" harmony of fifths and octaves; the music then progresses in a compelling filigree upon the chant tone, a lengthy marginal gloss. But each phrase returns irrevocably from dissonance to perfection of harmony.
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Youtube Comments: 74
MistagetteDu59 Says:
Nov 22, 2011 - Oh my god , je la chante à haute voix au collège !!!
tubeyoujj Says:
Nov 29, 2011 - beautifullll
Joshua001A Says:
Dec 11, 2011 - Gorgeous, just beautiful
Joshua001A Says:
Dec 11, 2011 - Thank u so much for posting this. I searched because I knew of the Kronos Quartet version of this, but it is beautiful to hear the human voices singing the words, as the late-medieval composer intended.
Joshua001A Says:
Dec 11, 2011 - Perotin was a genius, such beautiful music.
littlerudegirrrrl Says:
Dec 11, 2011 - not religoius but this is fuckin genius
IchBinZeKaiser Says:
Dec 12, 2011 - @flammesombres: Where did you find the images of the manuscripts? I am very interested in ancient music, and I would love read it the way it originally was!
xanafanadu Says:
Dec 15, 2011 - very melismatic.
DeathBySparkles Says:
Dec 25, 2011 - My jaw dropped when I saw the year 1198. Thank goodness for written music. We're able to reproduce this millennium-old piece and experience something like what people commonly listened to so long ago. It's surreal when pondering it; though, I find that curious in itself. I do not feel such when considering visual works from the Middle Ages or any other time. Perhaps music is different because verbal communication from long ago is so much rarer, less likely to have been preserved.
jcracker Says:
Dec 28, 2011 - thats why i can never get into many musical analysis books about composers, even tho i want to. too much pretentious academic bullshit, not enough substantive theory about the music itself. that's what i've noticed anyway.
Marsuvees1298 Says:
Jan 9, 2012 - Quite a while indeed! Although, It is surprising to most how much in common the notation of chant, and our modern notation have!
orrycat Says:
Jan 13, 2012 - effeminizing and homoerotic music? Nonsense :)
pianiplunker Says:
Feb 7, 2012 - It's a good scholarly book. It is indeed true that Perotin's contemporaries viewed the new Notre Dame polyphony with hostility and some certainly did go to the extremes of describing it as effeminate and homoerotic. It's hard for us in the 21st century to believe this music could be controversial but church music before this was much simpler.
jtv123vols1 Says:
Feb 9, 2012 - no
YoussefFishere Says:
Feb 17, 2012 - Homoerotic?
eulero75 Says:
Feb 22, 2012 - I am the number 59.000 who watch this video :)
thetruetallboy Says:
Feb 23, 2012 - Only one thing I can say...This composition doesn't date 1198. Almost all historians agree that Perotinus Magnus earliest works began 1208. I think OP is thinking of Leoninus work by the same name.
bradleyeric14 Says:
Mar 9, 2012 - Classical Greek homoerotic sculpture of 5th century show muscular warriors. Later Hellenistic heterosexual sculpture of 4 Century and later shows slim, youths. Identification of feminizing tendencies with homo-eroticism is erroneous.Notion that ''Notre Dame polyphony is essentially effeminizing and homoerotic'' might convince those who think women like tough guys and homosexuals are soft.
Usaplove Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - c'est chiant
Dresdentrumpet Says:
May 7, 2012 - About that effeminizing and homoerotic man that is just someone that has to publish a book to have a job. I find this music very mystical. I think that age is very mystical. I mean this was sung in a church service. The original chant probably only lasted about a minute. This thing is 10minutes and this is just one piece of the latin mass. Can you imagine how long the mass took to perform? They had to be there like 4 or 5 hours. Amazing to think about
Dresdentrumpet Says:
May 7, 2012 - Yes exactly remember in the academic world its publish or perish. So sex sells even in such a topic as music history.
dimitri1cantemir Says:
May 19, 2012 - We have to say thanks to Perotìn the Great for the existance of modern (polyphonic) music!
amirnkhalaf Says:
May 28, 2012 - really nice one
IchBinZeKaiser Says:
Nov 7, 2011 - @ch252525 The notes are called "neumes." They pre-date the current five line staff with measured bar lines. The lines you see on the page are phrase lines, which are not exactly measured, but just say when to pause, breathe, or change rhythmic mode (the pattern of long/short notes). At 3:48, it switches to traditional plain chant, which flows according to the text. This style is still used in some Catholic Churches today. @flammesombres is right: it does take a while to get used to.