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

Members of the choir will sing to plainsong a verse of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and then the organist will improvise the next verse.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

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

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2016

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