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
But the core of its repertory was medieval music in which, in plainchant passages, the four women’s voices seemed to melt together into one silky, unison line.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
This version has the basic plainchant as normal, but instead of adding another line following its contours like the parallel train tracks, the new additional line stays put.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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