plainsong

Example Sentences

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Like that wisecrack, Hobson’s style is colloquial throughout; he works in American plainsong even when summoning voices from beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2021

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

If their prayer is like plainsong, chanted in unison, their work is like harmony, a bright medley of voices.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein