plainsong

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Church music, plainsong music, large choirs — all of that stuff is extremely beautiful, and I wanted to try and get some of that in this record.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

And at the appointed hour, just as their guidebook had promised, the transfiguring music of plainsong rose from the crypt below them, a few wide steps down from the main body of the church.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

I think of him in the lineage of bardic recitation and plainsong.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2016

The group gave a beautiful account of Robert White’s setting of “Christe Qui Lux es est Dies,” a Compline hymn, which sets simple plainsong verses into radiantly rotating, polyphonic motion.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2014

His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall