plainchant

How To Use plainchant In A Sentence

• The plainchant was delivered faultlessly, and gave a flavour of the complementary timbres of the male voices.
• Plainchant melodies, or sections of them, were taken as cantus firmi in the earliest forms of polyphony (e.g. organum, clausula) and in the 13th and 14th-century motet and some early mass movements.
• 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.
• The service is fleshed out with short organ pieces and improvisations, and the plainchant used at St Mark's at Christmas; it provides the perfect framework for the music by two of the formidable masters of music at San Marco.
• It's based on an overlapping seven-note tune - I think the technical term for this is 'organum' and dates from plainchant in the middle ages, but I could be wrong. Music
• Theirs is an exceptionally robust, high-fibre way with both plainchant and the music that grew out of it. Times, Sunday Times
• His 'choir' comprises 12 singers, five of whom sing the solos with four extras for the plainchant introductions. Times, Sunday Times
• 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).
• His massive cycle of mass Propers, built round plainchant melodies, was composed partly in response to the Konstanz commission, partly for use by the imperial chapel choir.
• The main theme of this movement is the Dies Irae from the medieval plainchant.