plainsong

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• The senses were amped up for the big production: stained glass, plainsong, frankincense and myrrh -- the works. Jeff DeGraff: The New Mass As New Coke
• If you have no stomach for plainsong and church polyphony, steer clear of this recording.
• It is based on a plainsong tenor, treated isorhythmically and incorporating some hocketing, while the other two voices have more complex hockets, the parts frequently crossing each other.
• From somewhere the high clear tones of plainsong filled the room. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
• His interest in counterpoint is shown in a set of 120 canons, most of them on the ‘Miserere’ plainsong, which use such techniques as augmentation, diminution, and retrograde motion.
• His knowledge of Greek enabled him to introduce much Eastern theology and liturgical practice into the West; Ambrosian plainsong is associated with his name, and the Athanasian Creed has been attributed to him.
• If this manuscript hardly recognizes polyphony, notwithstanding the influence of the proses of the school of Saint-Martial-de-Limoges, this is because the author seems to have gone to the limit possible in non-accentual plainsong. Archive 2009-04-01
• Such popularity as these records have clearly indicates the refreshing quality found in the ‘purity’ of plainsong, the clarity and sweetness of the voices, and the halo of reverberation that imparts warmth to the ensemble.
• The astonishing success of four women singing plainsong has created yet another mystery in the annals of record sales.
• Indeed in the interval the choirmen were comparing plainsong with the monks’ psalters.