plainchant

How To Use plainchant In A Sentence

• Not just settings of the ordinary, but the copious amounts of plainchant needed to cover all the propers (the introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion and other sentences, all of which change according to the day and festival).
• A comparable example in the West is the Latin liturgy set to plainchant.
• Partly this is due to the heavy reliance on the second tone plainchant melody, which can be clearly heard in the first polyphonic verse at ‘in Deo salutary meo’ (‘in God my saviour’) and a soprano and alto duet at ‘Esurientes implevit bonis’ (‘He hath filled the hungry with good things’). Archive 2009-06-01
• The majority of Obrecht's masses are constructed round either plainchant melodies or secular songs.
• Here is a pleasingly provocative collision of two aesthetics, both juxtaposed and, in four plainchant pieces, superimposed. Times, Sunday Times
• In the Outer Hebrides they still sing a very ancient kind of unaccompanied plainchant - first the minister starts warbling, then the congregation joins in, ululating and carolling, nasally.
• Pop back at 6pm if the cathedral is holding evensong; plainchant by candlelight is quite something. Times, Sunday Times
• Plainchant haunts the imagination of both composers, and much ink is spilt on its differing significance for each one. Times, Sunday Times
• In its earliest recorded form, plainchant, the monophonic music of the Western Church, varies from extreme simplicity to great complexity.
• And so you do, refreshed, excited, and moved from opening plainchant to the final response. Times, Sunday Times