plainchant meaning

• Noun: plainchant  pleynchaant
  1. A liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
     - plainsong, Gregorian chant

  Derived forms: plainchants

  Type of: chant

  Encyclopedia: Plainchant

• The shape of noteheads has differed historically, as in plainchant
• The tallis fantasia grows out of the simplest renaissance plainchant into glowing string textures of ravishing beauty
• It contains one of the few remaining examples of Celtic Plainchant.
• Clausulae eventually became used as substitutes for passages of original plainchant.
• A low plainchant performed by a 24-voice male chorus.
• Anglican chant grew out of the plainchant tradition during the English Reformation.
• The movements differ in their treatment of the source plainchant.
• For several centuries, different plainchant styles existed concurrently.
• The chant manuscript records mainly Western plainchant of the Roman-Frankish octoechos.
• Neumatic notation remains standard in modern editions of plainchant.

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