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 Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church has two, one a treatment of “While shepherds watched their flocks by night,” and the other of a plainsong melody.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2015
These new layered sound effects, built on plainsong tunes, were edging very close to what today we would call ‘harmony’ - that is, the existence and exploitation of simultaneous clusters of notes.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
