Perotin - Viderunt Omnes
  • bgeorge77
    Posts: 190
    Just heard Perotin's Viderunt Omnes for the first time.

    I am completely blown away.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyAYtUwKfk

    At first I thought there was some mistake. "Surely I am listening to the latest avant choral work, directed by some post-modern musicologist on peyote."

    It doesn't even seem possible that this music was created in the 1200s... this is "early music"?? It's richer and more complex than pretty much any other vocal music I've ever heard.
  • GavinGavin
    Posts: 2,799
    Wait until you get into the 14th century...
  • Michael O'Connor
    Posts: 1,637
    Check out his Sederunt Principes. Even more impressive IMO.
  • Daniel Bennett PageDaniel Bennett Page
    Posts: 833
    My schola in Western Massachusetts sang Sederunt at a lecture-recital and could best describe the experience as ecstatic.
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