Talk:Léonin
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[edit] French spelling of article name
Shouldn't this page be titled "Léonin" (with accent), to be consistent with French spelling as well as the Pérotin page?
[edit] Is Leonin a first or last name?
Ummm... If Leonin is a first name, what is his last (family) name? Also, if Leonin is a last name, what is his first name? --154.20.102.96 20:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think they had family names then (the article surname goes into some detail, but unfortunately not for names in French-speaking countries). As far as I know he was just Leonin, or sometimes Magister Leoninus (master Leonin) (modern equivalent "Leo", as far as I know). Antandrus (talk) 21:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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- There's not much evidence or records of this guy other than the mention by Anonymous IV (and, of course, the music he wrote and left us), so nobody knows what his family name was, if indeed he had one. Sometimes people were named after the city from which they came, such as Leonardo da Vinci. His first name, though, appears to have been Léo, thus the Latin Leoninus (diminutive of Leo, thus "little Leo"). Doesn't the article explain this? Badagnani 21:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Include the spelling "Leonius" in article?
On one of my CDs I recently got, his name was spelled "Leonius". I only found this Wikipedia page after Googling "Leonius" and finding that it was one of four names associated with him (the other three - Léonin, Leo, and Leoninus are already in your article). Maybe including this alternate name would be helpful for people with no more to go on?
[By the way, the website I found through Google is: http://www.hoasm.org/IIC/Leonin.html Hope you find this helpful.]
Azaghal of Belegost 00:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- The musicologist Craig Wright apparently thinks that the contemporary poet Leonius was the same as the Leoninus mentioned by Anonymous IV. But I guess that isn't proven. This controversy could of course be mentioned in the article. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:PH-2boaqasEJ:www.oup.com/us/brochure/0195169794/samplechapter.pdf+leonius+medieval+music&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9 Badagnani 00:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
