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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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musical notation.
Neumatic notation remains standard in
modern editions of
plainchant. The word
neume entered the
English language in the
Middle English forms...
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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,
related to but...
- in Latin. It is a
metrical paraphrase of the O Antiphons, a
series of
plainchant antiphons attached to the
Magnificat at
Vespers over the
final days before...
- movement, Kyrie, in the
organ version Opus 9 Text
Requiem Language Latin Based on
Gregorian plainchant Dedication To the
memory of his
father Movements 9...
- from the
Carolingian Empire (800–888),
around the time
which Western plainchant gradually unified into what is
termed Gregorian chant.
Musical centers...
- irae" (
plainchant)
Problems playing this file? See
media help. The
original Gregorian setting,
dating back to the 13th century, was a
sombre plainchant (or...
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Organum (/ˈɔːrɡənəm/) is, in general, a
plainchant melody with at
least one
added voice to
enhance the harmony,
developed in the
Middle Ages. Depending...
