Leonin: viderunt omnes

[BigBagsForRent2]

I want to hear some of this good shit sampled in a dubstep track. Would be amazing.

[freeway996]

think the title describes the song very well^^

[esecica]

Muchas gracias por subir esta pieza, es muy útil para estudiar musicología. Un saludo.

[amazingvideoman2]

anyone from concordia reading this?...

[practicecrazypianist]

I rather like the bells, despite their not being in the original score...amd I love James Bowman's voice! Thanks for uploading!

[0000AllFitness0000]

This is back when music was good! (extremely boring and ineffectual rant about how young people don't understand what good music is).

My work is finished.

[SilverPinions]

@0000AllFitness0000 I'm sixteen and this is one of the most profoundly beautiful pieces I've heard in a long time ^^ I just can't understand how people today can say that music in the charts is the best when an ocean of undiscovered music they can't even begin to comprehend the beauty of lies beneath them in history

[SkylineExports]

@SilverPinions y did u have to mention that you are 16. Its completely irrelevant.

[darktangent10]

@SkylineExports Because the person that he was replying to said young people don't understand what good music is.

[tetekeke]

Again brought here by Music 4!

[p8chill]

@tetekeke haha yep studyin for quiz

[EyeLean5280]

Sung. "Sung by Tonus Peregrinus"

[amatorynumber]

I was going to say, this is David Munrow's group. The countertenor is James Bowman.

Te iba a decir que esta es la versión del grupo liderado por David Munrow. El contratenor es James Bowman.

Thanks for uploading.

Gracias por subirlo.

[flexibartrampolin]

Did he really exist?

[TsaristRussian180]

God I miss that era

[acerb45666555]

2:19......that looks Byzantine!

[zdytnt]

Thank you! Greatest performance.

[RtasVadumeeKostas]

Helps me undrestand music history better. I just couldnt undrstand what the organum was. thx!

[starbreez3]

The images are beautiful! All of them, and then the song, makes it just perfect.

Thanks so much!

[deadcalledpark]

i think the bells are quite annoying

[BronzeWingleader]

This is completely stupid of me, but all of you (the commenters) opened my eyes to something I thought impossible... a comment section on Youtube NOT consisting of hollering idiots.

Also, this piece is amazing just the way it is.

[MusicIsMyLife6991]

Too bad pianos weren't created back then. But this piece is good.

I love the Beata Viscera by Perotin.

[benjaminz6]

Do you really think that pianos could make this any better. I actually don't know how pianos and chants sound together. But I have heard a few modern Gregorian groups and they kinda suck.

[Manof10001Fists]

@MusicIsMyLife6991 Too bad Eigenharps weren't created back then. But this piece is good

[deadcalledpark]

quite stupid comment, don't you think?

[MusicIsMyLife6991]

I'm not saying a piano would make this piece better, i'm just saying these ancient composers could write fantastic music with the piano as they did then with this type of music.

[libertatus]

The idea of equal-temperament was a hotly debated topic among musicians, heads of state, church officials, and philosophers. Some saw it as unnatural and even ugly. Musical harmony was, for generations, geometry made sensual and was not to be toyed with. But, as instruments evolved in complexity, (harpsichords) those geometric proportions used for tuning were abandoned almost all together. Imagine the comotion if a modern piano would have suddenly "appeared" in medieval Europe. (!)

[starbreez3]

@MusicIsMyLife6991 Hahaha, they didn't have pianos back there.

[MusicIsMyLife6991]

@starbreez3 - Yeah, I know. They make music that stupid rap lovers laugh at nowadays.

[KiriNoShinobi]

MoaiMaea, Perotinus only added 2 more voices to the one who "rules" the song. (There's a stronger voice and another one, who songs Viiiideeeeruuuunt Ommmmneeees, later AaaAaAaA...)

[daveypr]

Leonin: "Viderunt Omnes" ("All have seen")

[voxhunden]

Isn't it: "so that all shall see"? Latin's a long time ago for me.

[NextArminius]

This is the David Munrow interpretation.

[Creissels]

Ravishing. I have this recording but it's great to find it on Youtube.  Thanks.

[MoaiMaea]

Did Perotinus copy this composition?

[benjaminz6]

no he was a student of leonin and perotin just did his own inerpretation

[MoaiMaea]

That's what I meant :3

Thank you.

[starbreez3]

Haha, I was wondering that also, I was in Perotin's version, and it was a little close to Leonin's. :3

[EsotericEggplant]

I am amazed by the originality of this piece coming out the Middle Ages!

[benjaminz6]

incredible

[giovanangarcia]

veery nice!Beatiful!

[divustitus]

This is reaching celestial heights!

[Chopinco]

how do u call that sustained note? bordon? or something like that?

[Chopinco]

tropo :o

[guitarmmaster]

no, it is called pedal tone, but only guys like leonin and perotin used it, later with philippe de vitry it transformed itnto another melody line

[Chopinco]

ur right! now i know it hehe, my teacher says it all the time! :P tks!

[krunk627]

i thought it was called cantus firmus?

[Mnacuspia004]

cantus firmus: the static voice, called also 'tenor', ´cause it suported the whole musical structure.

[Gargarozzing]

PLEASE somebody submit Magister Perotinus' "Viderunt Omnes" (1198). I'm HUNGRY for Perotino.

[rogermoore27]

very nice

[DuxCorvan]

This version is not the one by "Tonus Peregrinus". It's the one performed in the early 70's by David Munrow and the "Early Music Consort" of London. It's very spirited and well performed, but it's a bit dated in terms of historical research. BTW, the bells are not in the original score -in fact, those middle ages scores are very simplistic and ambiguous and can be interpreted in too many ways.

[sciprio]

My mistake, thanks for the correction.

[KFL63]

Thanks for the music of the heaven.

kfl63 Switzerland

[chulorome]

Thank.... =)

[baldwalrus7]

Is the ringing-bell in the original? (Sorry for my ignorance...) Is that what the "organum" is?

[Biotrom]

"Organum" is the particular style of music. I wish I could describe it in more technical detail but it is my favorite music to listen to. I don't think the bell would have been notated in the original manuscript. But the musicians who sing this kind of music usually go for historically authentic performances. So if you had heard this in the 12th century, you would likely have heard a bell. Keep in mind that it was written for church services.

[baldwalrus7]

According to one website organum is "The name given to the earliest types of polyphonic music." I see what you mean.

[ShChAlterZvi]

it's true that a lot of musicians who perform and record earlier music are going for historical authenticity, trying to recapture the sounds you would have heard back then. but in this case, they're taking some creative license: the bells would probably *not* have been a part of any performance of this music. which doesn't mean that this performance isn't worth listening to. we can't ever *really* know what went on back then anyway, and making it enjoyable for us, today, is always worthwhile.

[tranelarod]

Organum is basically one melody (the main melody you hear) plus one or more addition voices which enhance or emphasize the intended harmony. The term organum is pretty ambiguous though, and its conception changed drastically over the centuries of the Medieval and Renaissance music periods. The Motet grew from organum, and likewise changed over centuries.

[ShaneKennedy1988]

Hey man, thank you very much. Helped my buddy and I very much. Time is money, and with the money I saved, thanks to you, im buying you a beer. cheers! 3===D :D

[paulcatalin]

Thank you for this organum !

[Ginne86]

cooooooooooooolllllllll

[Roxyunlimited]

Thanks !

[guitarmmaster]

thanks this is great..thanks for uploading

[connectwired]

This is great!

[cheapdayrtn]

Yes, thank you very much!

[chorister88]

Its piece for hard to find...thx :)

[sciprio]

I´m glad that you like it.