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Meanings of plainsong in English

Russian
плав­ный рас­пев
Portuguese
canto gregoriano
Spanish
canto llano
Catalan
cant gregorià

Body of monophonic chants used in the liturgies of the Western Christian Church.

Related terms
плав­ный рас­пев
Usage of plainsong in English
1
At a pause in the plainsong one of the tapers was put out.
A Time of Gifts
2
Worship, plainsong, good liturgy, space and stillness provide solace for body, mind and heart.
The Irish Times
3
Instead, he turned to early music; to plainsong; and to the beginnings of polyphony.
Radio NZ
4
The definition of plainsong is unaccompanied unison singing in Latin.
The Irish Times
5
Then with a surge rose up the plainsong melody.
Lourdes
6
As the plainsong grew stronger around her, she knelt and laid a hand on his chest.
Vlad. The Last Confession
7
The plainsong and chants and drumming, the sound of children, the talk of women: it had stopped.
The Descent
8
That's why they go on about plainsong.
The Irish Times
9
A choir chanted a ringing, mournful plainsong.
The Fireman
10
The eerie modes of some plainsong chant echoed long and hollow and far away, as if from bare masonry.
The Centauri Device
11
But plainsong and platform shoes?
The Irish Times
12
I was greatly disappointed with the singing in the severe, unadorned Chapel; it was plainsong, without any organ or instrument.
The Days Before Yesterday
13
Putting off the fetters of plainsong, music became beautiful for its own sake, and as an agent of dramatic expression.
A Second Book of Operas
14
And Winchester, too, has all and more than all, the surprise of the plainsong; the better you know it the more you are impressed.
England of My Heart : Spring
15
Now on a Sunday Gregorian plainsong escapes through the doors of one church and the Lutheran strains of Ein' feste Burg from the next.
The Irish Times
16
Amen: Credo III Plainsong sung by the cantor, vocal ensemble and congregation Amen.
Radio NZ
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Plainsong through the time