plain song
- a variation of plainsong.
Example Sentences
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For such an apparently plain song, Love Me Do caused a lot of problems.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
It is all very satisfying, but even better is the way Director Valerii has embellished a traditional western plain song with eccentric bursts of baroque invention.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Elizabeth II comes next week to her "Royal Peculiar," she will come for the plain song and preaching more as just another communicant than as head of church and state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oregon-born Composer Lou Harrison, 39, found the inspiration for his moving, low-pitched Mass in the percussion-accompanied plain song of the Indians of Spanish California, later Europeanized it with "contrapuntal accompaniment based on medieval methods."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Voluntaries," published in the same year in the "Atlantic Monthly," is more dithyrambic in its measure and of a more Pindaric elevation than the plain song of the "Boston Hymn."
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
