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- noun Plural form of
plainsong .
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Examples
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In the Missa defunctorum, however, the four-voice texture is maintained throughout, and the polyphony paraphrases the appropriate plainsongs.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Over the years, plainsongs' unadorned melodies, sung in Latin to an uneven meter, became somehow suggestive of high religiosity.
"Chant Revival" bls 2008
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Over the years, plainsongs' unadorned melodies, sung in Latin to an uneven meter, became somehow suggestive of high religiosity.
Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008
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We have his chants and his anthems and plainsongs to remind us of the one essential, of how lofty a singer passed down our highroad.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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Never had the peasants heard a hymn like this, so solemn, yet so triumphant, they who only knew their plainsongs, which rose to heaven like a great groan: 'Lord, we lay our guilt before Thine eyes.'
Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke
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