Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
plainsong .
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Examples
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With the help of John La Farge, Jr., a Jesuit, she learned to decode the plain-chant notation and mastered enough of the rhythms and phrasing to perform for her new uncle.
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With the help of John La Farge, Jr., a Jesuit, she learned to decode the plain-chant notation and mastered enough of the rhythms and phrasing to perform for her new uncle.
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Their plain-chant hummed through the pleasant air like bee song, setting his teeth on edge somehow.
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As with the plain-chant of the church, only the _pitch_ of the tone is indicated.
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There is practically but one plain-chant melody for the hymn, varying greatly, however, in different MSS.
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Vittoria, retains the plain-chant melodies for single persons and makes them serve, after the manner of Obrecht, as canti fermi in the ensemble.
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Thus early, and all through the plain-chant period, the choir seems to have been influenced by the liturgical division of the music into solo and chorus chants.
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+ The frequent occurrence in the plain-chant melodies of cadences moulded on the literary cursus shows that they were composed before the middle of the seventh century, when the cursus went out of use.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Yet the school of composition associated with this change was largely built upon plain-chant, and produced such masters of religious music as Palestrina, Vittoria, and Byrd.
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Sometimes the alternate verses only are set to music, so that another choir or the congregation may sing the other verses in plain-chant (as in the Miserere, q. v.).
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