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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...
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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...
- 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...
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translation is used
verbatim in ****'s
novel Ubik two
years later. "Dies irae" (
plainchant)
Problems playing this file? See
media help. The
words of "Dies iræ" have...
- 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...
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continuing subject of
debate among musicologists. The
early notation of
plainchant,
particularly Gregorian chant, used a
series of
shapes called neumes,...
