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
The vocal settings are plain as well, with qualities again of Glass and Satie, along with hints of Robert Ashley, Broadway, elemental pop song and plainchant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
For the word of God, which frames the work, Britten has the two voices sing in plainchant unison.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2013
What singers of plainchant had in front of them in the centuries before about ad 800 was the text, in Latin, of what they were singing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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