Hildegard of Bingen
Medieval
1098-1179
German
sequence
an abbess, writer, painter
Leonin
Medieval
fl.1150s-c.1201
French
Notre Dame Organum
-Latin, sacred, uses
parallel intervals, chant in bottom voice
-wrote Viderunt Omnes
Perotin
Medieval
fl.c.1200
French
Notre Dame Organum
-Latin, sacred, uses
parallel intervals, chant in bottom voice
-wrote Viderunt Omnes
Guillaume de Machaut
Ars Nova
c. 1300-77
French
Formes Fixes Chansons
Isorythmic Motets
First complete polyphonic setting of
the Ordinary of the Mass
Worked as secretary to King
John of Luxembourg