plainsong
plainchant

During this period (1990) he published his first book, Plainsong.

The full cast then recess to the same plainsong with which the work began.

Suddenly, the scene comes alive with the echo of plainsong.

"Plainsong requires a very flexible voice and this has helped me a lot."

They gather only for services of prayer and plainsong.

He listened to a few bars of the plainsong, pensively.

Fragments of plainsong are often used as basic source material to be adapted and developed in various ways.

Now, they fitted their speech into a pattern much like plainsong and yet not quite a chant.

I don't think you quite realise how much money's being bet on plainsong.

In the background, a twelfth-century plainsong could be heard.

As "Plainsong" progresses, it becomes something of an echo chamber.

The music of these missions had been rooted in plainsong and polyphonic singing.

Like so many melancholic television movies, "Plainsong" has been bronzed.

On most Sundays, the choir sings plainsong and is accompanied by the congregation.

The works in the playbook are told in a musical style similar to that of plainsong.

The Plainsong Mass for a Mean is a much simpler work.

Eventide, a sequel to Plainsong, was published in 2004.

The monks began to chant Gregorian plainsong as the bell fell silent.

In the 12th and 13th centuries the original plainsong started to be put at the bottom.

The boyhood dream never materialized, but it formed the basis for the relationship between the two little boys in "Plainsong."

Plainsong is monophonic, consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line.

It shows St. Gregory holding a sheet of plainsong.

The choir sings a challenging repertoire from early plainsong to the work of contemporary composers.

His Primer of Plainsong (1877) became to be regarded as the standard work on the subject.

Strings play plainsong in unison; the tone is gray with subtle ambiguities of key.

A return to the single threads of plainchant was one proposal.

With plainchant, all people sing the same music in unison, most of the time.

They told him in their school plainchant that they did.

The movements differ in their treatment of the source plainchant.

On the surface, the music may seem to resemble Western plainchant, as indeed some of it does.

The music draws on the Advent plainchant of the same name, which appears in its full form only at the end.

That is when an enormous clash took place between styles of medieval plainchant.

The type of plainchant that evolved was called Gregorian chant.

He trained the monks in the traditions of plainchant for daily services and prayers.

In 1958 he published a large work on plainchant, which provided a comprehensive guide of the repertoire and its sources.

It grew out of a composer's fascination with church polyphony and plainchant.

Other more staid settings carried an unusual suggestion of plainchant.

A comparable example in the West is the Latin liturgy set to plainchant.

The plainchant celebrated the simplicity of words made to float on a single tune shaped to fit them.

He was quite an authority on plainchant.

The original setting was a sombre plainchant (or Gregorian chant).

Their calm, slow melodies are built up from paired phrases reminiscent of plainchant.

Near the end a solo viola line offers a florid evocation of plainchant.

The ensemble of pilgrims-monks was outstanding in the framing plainchant that opened and closed the piece.

Why does plainchant make us feel pious?

He once stormed out of a church when the choir sang Beethoven instead of plainchant.

Clausulae eventually became used as substitutes for passages of original plainchant.

In the early Middle Ages, ecclesiastical music was dominated by monophonic plainchant.

One choir sings a simple kind of tune called a fauxbourdon which is based on a plainchant.

A return to simple plainchant is recommended, but lovers of the musical art hope the great Palestrina can persuade the council otherwise.