How To Use Plainchant In A Sentence
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The plainchant was delivered faultlessly, and gave a flavour of the complementary timbres of the male voices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Theirs is an exceptionally robust, high-fibre way with both plainchant and the music that grew out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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His 'choir' comprises 12 singers, five of whom sing the solos with four extras for the plainchant introductions.
Times, Sunday Times
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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).
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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.
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The main theme of this movement is the Dies Irae from the medieval plainchant.
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How do we know they found plainchant uplifting?
The Times Literary Supplement
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It's a pity because, a few moments of unruliness apart, the performances of both the masses here are thoughtful and beautifully shaped, and neither the plainchant-based Missa de Beata Maria Virgine nor the parody mass Missa Surge Propera, based upon a Palestrina motet, has been recorded many times before.
Victoria: Missa de Beata Maria Virgine; Missa Surge Propera etc – review
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Has he never heard monks singing plainchant?
Times, Sunday Times
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The plainchant was delivered faultlessly, and gave a flavour of the complementary timbres of the male voices.
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The German term originally signified a plainchant melody sung chorally, but from the late 16th century its meaning was widened to include vernacular hymns.
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They include works based on plainchant (the Missa ‘Pange lingua’), monophonic songs (the two L'Homme armé masses), or voice parts extracted from polyphonic chansons (Missa ‘Faisant regretz’).
Archive 2009-05-01
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Nothing too quirky or idiosyncratic this week, and he starts, of course, with plainchant more than 1,000 years old.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so you do, refreshed, excited, and moved from opening plainchant to the final response.
Times, Sunday Times
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A comparable example in the West is the Latin liturgy set to plainchant.
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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
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The majority of Obrecht's masses are constructed round either plainchant melodies or secular songs.
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Here is a pleasingly provocative collision of two aesthetics, both juxtaposed and, in four plainchant pieces, superimposed.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Pop back at 6pm if the cathedral is holding evensong; plainchant by candlelight is quite something.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plainchant haunts the imagination of both composers, and much ink is spilt on its differing significance for each one.
Times, Sunday Times
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In its earliest recorded form, plainchant, the monophonic music of the Western Church, varies from extreme simplicity to great complexity.
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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).
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These rendered plainchant in unison (the boys, where available, singing an octave above the men), either as a body or antiphonally across the choir.
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The earliest recorded uses of choral singing are for Christian worship, in particular the unison singing of plainchant.
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In plainchant melodies the commonest cadential close is a descending step to the final from the note above; other formulas, such as a descending 3rd or an ascending 2nd, are also found.
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But the text of Rex tremendae is part of the Dies irae sequence, not the other way round, and there is no trace of the Dies irae plainchant in Mozart's setting.
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What, for the original friars, was poignant about plainchant?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Christian plainchant offers melodic settings of varying complexity for the Ordinary and Proper texts of their parent rites, which may consist of psalmody and other scriptural texts or freely composed hymnody.
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It is possible that plainchant developed to some extent through the embellishment of simpler originals, the ecstatic jubilus melismas of certain alleluias being a likely example.
