Crossword-Solution: ROTIN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

His policy is always ‘_Rengraciez_!’ and he cares not a single _rotin_ for _La Reniffe_,” she replied, dropping again into the slang of French thieves.

Dans le sable stérile où dorment tous les miens Que ne puis-je finir le songe de la vie! Que ne puis-je, couché sous le chiendent amer, Chair inerte, vouée au temps qui la dévore, M'engloutir dans la nuit qui n'aura point d'aurore, Au grondement immense et morne de la mer! LE MANCHY Sous un nuage frais de claire mousseline, Tous les dimanches au matin, Tu venais à la ville en manchy de rotin, Par les rampes de la colline.

CHAPTER XII--THE RISE OF POLYPHONY; OLD FRENCH AND GALLO-BELGIC SCHOOLS 148-159 Origin and meaning of polyphony--monodic and homophonic--canonic imitation--chords as incidents--variety and unity--early French school--Coussemaker's researches--Léonin--descant--Pérotin--names of pieces--Robert of Sabillon--Pierre de la Croix--Jean of Garland--Franco of Paris--Jean de Muris--fleurettes--John Cotton--Machaut--Gallo-Belgic school--Dufay--Hans de Zeelandia--Antoine de Busnois.

For convenience of classification the entire duration of the old French school may be divided into four periods, of which the first may be taken to extend from 1100 to 1140, the great names being those of Léonin and Pérotin, both organists and deschanteurs at Notre Dame.

The harmonic treatment in them is still crude, occasional passages of parallel fifths occurring, after the manner of Hucbald, but in the works of Pérotin passages of this kind are softened somewhat by the device of contrary motion in the other parts.