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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...
- Ambrosian chant (also known as Milanese chant) is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Ambrosian rite of the Roman Catholic Church, distinct from...
- 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...
- musical notation. Neumatic notation remains standard in modern editions of plainchant. The word neume entered the English language in the Middle English forms...
- mention, by name, of the king. The Saint John Fisher Missale Text and plainchant of the Order of M**** and other parts of the 1962 Roman Missal (e.g., propers...
- Est Nobis from Thomas Tallis. The festive m**** setting is based on the plainchant 'A Child is Born For Us', which alludes to the birth of a baby boy for...
- 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'...