plainsong
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Back and forth, a choir onstage chanted plainsong, answered by another more effusive choir behind the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
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
Amid the chaotic sounds of battle, a plainsong chant, ‘Crux fidelis’, introduces the figure at top left with a gleaming cross.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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