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LEONIN AND PEROTIN GO TO SCHOOL The Gregorian chants spoken ot in the last chapterwere single melodies. Therewas only one melody being sung to the words written. Around A.D. 1100 a very imponant development in music history took place. This development, known as polyphony, combined two or more simultaneous melodic lines. Then, instead ol just one line ol melody, the priests and monks in monasteries could sing two or three or Iour lines ol melody at one lime. Having that many melodies meant that muwould have to be written down in a more sic precise manner. ln this way, the development ot Example ot a motet polyphony brought about the development ol precise notation ol music. The earliest known composer of polyphonic musicwas Leonin, who lived in the last part ot the twellth century. He was one of a number ol composers whose center ol study and composition was the cathsdral ol Notre Dame in Paris. The style of polyphony that Leonin composed was called organum. Otganum was created by adding a second voice or second melody to the Gregorian chant. lt ran parallel to that chant at the interval of a Iourth, either above or below. Leonin's su@essor was Perotin. Perotin wrote polyphonic music in three and four parts. Toward the end of Perotin's lire composers began writing new words to be used by the additionalvoices. Whilethe originalGregorian chant melody was sung with the original Gregorian chant text orwords, new words would be written fbrthe other two orthree voices. The addition ol these new telts resulted in what was called the moret lt was the most important lorm ol early polyphonic music. The motet lrom the late Middle Ages could be either secular or sacred; it could have to do with a religious or nonreligious theme. (Something sacred is religious, and something secular is nonreligious.)