Saint Martial school

The Saint Martial School was a medieval school of music composition centered in the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, France. Most active from the end of the ninth century until first half of the thirteenth century, some scholars prefer to describe its practices, music, and manuscripts and their countless innovations as 'Aquitanian'. It is known for the composition of tropes, sequences, and later versus compositions dealing with all forms of poetic and musical experiments (including polyphonic forms of discant and even troped organum). In this respect, it was an important precursor to the Notre Dame School.