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How To Use plainsong In A Sentence

• Spring/summer and autumn/winter seasons are now about as relevant to contemporary life as Gregorian plainsong. Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet
• At length, the soloist and the orchestra meet on the same spiritual plane, a process aided by the quotation of the plainsong Adoro te devote.
• An expectation, or suspicion, depending on your perspective, is growing that ICEL actually intends that the new texts not be set to Broadway-style music but plainsong in the tradition of Gregorian chant, i.e. that Vatican II not be a dead letter as regards music in the Roman Rite. The "greedy cartel of guitar-strumming copyright hawks"
• Thus was he able to perceive connections between such seemingly disparate aspects of music as plainsong, electronics, extended piano techniques and campanology.
• Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
• The four-voice Salve regina, sub-titled ‘Diversi diversa orant’, incorporates seven Marian antiphons, each of the lower voices freely paraphrasing two plainsong antiphons in succession while the superius unfolds the Salve. Archive 2009-06-01
• Not just Latin but plainsong as well, a posthumous defiance of all the changes and compromises which Anna Haycraft (to give her her real name) had deplored not just in the Catholic but all the Christian churches.
• If you have no stomach for plainsong and church polyphony, steer clear of this recording.
• The Colby College graduate paused from his avocation, as well as his duties as a commercial lender at TD Banknorth's Augusta and Waterville offices, to answer some questions about a spiritual art and craft, also called plainsong, that seems largely neglected in the 21st century. Maine News Updates - Central Maine Newspapers, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
• Monks in Tudor England subtly altered the words of Latin plainsong, transforming them into coded protest.