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Plainsong or
plainchant (calque from the
French plain-chant; Latin:
cantus pl****) is a body of
chants used in the
liturgies of the
Western Church. When...
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Gregorian chant is the
central tradition of
Western plainchant, a form of monophonic,
unaccompanied sacred song in
Latin (and
occasionally Gr****) of the...
- lines). In the
Early Middle Ages, the
earliest Christian songs,
called plainchant (a well-known
example is
Gregorian chant), were monophonic. Even into...
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Ambrosian chant (also
known as
Milanese chant) is the
liturgical plainchant repertory of the
Ambrosian rite of the
Roman Catholic Church,
distinct from...
- holy ground" (Exodus 3:5). A
translation closer to the
Latin is: The
plainchant of the
gradual appears in the
Liber Usualis at p. 1064 of the 1924 edition...
- irae" (
plainchant)
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media help. The
original Gregorian setting,
dating back to the 13th century, was a
sombre plainchant (or...
- (Oxford, 2003) "Homer and Gregory: The
Transmission of Epic
Poetry and
Plainchant." The
Musical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3 (July 1974), pp. 333–372 " 'Centonate'...
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musical notation.
Neumatic notation remains standard in
modern editions of
plainchant. The word
neume entered the
English language in the
Middle English forms...
- to E—E. A few
books of
English chant (notably
Burgess and Palmer's The
Plainchant Gradual) make use of
oioueae for the
equivalent English phrase, "world...
- l'office divin... Paris: Jérôme Bonneuil, 1687. 4°, 20 p., engraved,
noted plainchant. The
privilege is
dated 14
August 1657.
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