plainchant
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of plainchant
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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
These a cappella meditations, interweaving plainchant and polyphony, sober canon and rhythmic surprise, take the listener as near extraterrestrial as you can get sitting in a concert hall.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2012
They took the original plainchant and added a second line that ran exacdy in parallel to it, at a slight distance, like two train tracks.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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