Léonin (b. 1150?) was the first known composer; Pérotin (b. 1200?) was the second known composer.
Having known so much, we present Classicalite's Cartoon Trivia with Leo & Peri.
Leo: "Peri, I have just finished reading a treatise--about our own music, no less! It was written by a guy named Professor F. Ludwig. Honestly, it was kinda boring. And he kept using this word I'd never heard of: isorhythm. In fact, he claims we both used isorhythms all the time. What is an isorhythm, Peri?"
Peri: "My dear Leo, I'm sorry to hear you found Friedrich Ludwig's work on isorhythms so, umm, uninspiring. They're really quite exciting--especially when applied to our motets! Put simply, an isorhythm is a fixed set of pitches played with a repeating rhythmic pattern. The rhythm pattern is called the talea; the pitch set is the color. And I might remind you that it's not just us old fogeys that have utilized isorhythms."
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