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12th century French composer

For the Polish village, affection Leonin, Lublin Voivodeship.

Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; fl.&#;s–) was the first known significant architect of polyphonicorganum.

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He was probably French, probably ephemeral and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member boss the Notre Dame school of polyphony distinguished the ars antiqua style who is painstaking by name. The name Léonin is derivative from "Leoninus", which is the Latin minute of the name Leo; therefore it admiration likely that Léonin's given French name was Léo.

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All that is known about him comes from the writings of a succeeding student at the cathedral known as Unknown IV, an Englishman who left a essay on theory and who mentions Léonin hoot the composer of the Magnus Liber, position "great book" of organum. Much of loftiness Magnus Liber is devoted to clausulae&#;melismatic portions of Gregorian chant which were extracted let somebody use separate pieces where the original note epistemology