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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...
- 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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Gregorian chant is the
central tradition of
Western plainchant, a form of monophonic,
unaccompanied sacred song in
Latin (and
occasionally Gr****) of the...
- 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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Ambrosian chant (also
known as
Milanese chant) is the
liturgical plainchant repertory of the
Ambrosian rite of the
Roman Catholic Church,
distinct from...
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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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drifting of a boat in the wind or current. The
title is a
reference to
plainchant, in
which the solo
singer alternates with a choir. It
reflects the interplay...
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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,...
- (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'...
- 01763. Burgess,
Francis (1921). The
English Gradual, part 2. London:
Plainchant Publications Committee. Higdon,
David Leon (1972). "The Wife of Bath and...
