plainchant
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of plainchant
Example Sentences
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Each section—crucifixion, burial and resurrection—began with plainchant and continued with more elaborate settings of those and other sacred texts on the subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
Looking back and ahead for inspiration, the chorus’ versatile music director, Grant Gershon, begins with Medieval plainchant and reaches the present with Reena Esmail’s “Together at Last.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2021
“Partita for 8 Voices” is a pattern book of vocal styles: its movements are stitched together from plainchant, percussive breathing, Early American hymnody, and half a dozen other techniques.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019
Then, too, the failure to include plainchant interpolations that would have been appropriate to the season deprives the work of some of its majesty and pace.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2015
It still essentially sounds like a colourful variant of plainchant, but she embellished the outline of the tune with touches of her own.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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