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

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