How To Use Plainsong In A Sentence

  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Melody, harmony, and rhythm became as important to music as plainsong and counterpoint, and the arts of ornamentation and virtuoso extemporization thrived among the virginalists, and among the lute and consort players.
  • Thus was he able to perceive connections between such seemingly disparate aspects of music as plainsong, electronics, extended piano techniques and campanology.
  • It's one of the sections of the Ordinary of the Mass which the congregation needs to join in: often in the Catholic church they sing it to traditional plainsong.
  • We sang all the propers of the Mass in a variety of different forms: choral introit, plainsong Psalm and acclamation, English chant for offertory, and Gregorian chant for communion. St. Cecilia Schola in Birmingham, Alabama
  • Urban March is magical, formed from simple humming, and Woman at the Door has the qualities of plainsong.
  • The masses fall into two (probably chronological) groups: the first consists of those printed in 1532 and those in the manuscript Montserrat 768 (copied 1546), which are primarily parody masses; the second consists of those found in Montserrat 772 (copied 1560), which paraphrase plainsong melodies and reflect the conservatism of Philip II and his court. Archive 2009-06-01
  • St Gregory the Great added four more to the original Ambrosian modes, and this system forms the basis of Gregorian plainsong, still used in the Roman Catholic Church.
  • The piece is based on the old Dies Irae medieval plainsong chant.
  • I listen to medieval music: sad pieces for romance, plainsong for Serious Matters and dances for social stuff. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Words, Pictures, Memory
  • The consistent – you could say persistent – use of conjunctive phrases such as "And it came to pass" on which Tyndale rings the changes gives the work a ritualised, almost plainsong feel. The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
  • 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.
  • This text was used, I believe, in all four twentieth-century coronations (certainly that of George V), restored to its medieval plainsong melody.
  • In other words, the daily execution of a grand motet on ordinary days would have given place to plainsong on feast days.
  • The glorious unaccompanied lines of ancient plainsong found their soulmates eventually in melodic bass lines, and then in the creation of partnerships between two or more upper strands of melody, woven together like fine tapestry.
  • The Accentus must be plainsong, and must be that plainsong which is found in the present typical edition, styled the Vatican Edition, of the "Roman The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • 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.
  • Each of the traditional mysteries of joy, sorrow and glory are introduced with readings from the writings of Cardinal Newman and Father Werenfried, while the organ music and plainsong interludes, reverentially sung by the Oxford Oratory Schola, reflect the appropriate moods of the mysteries and give a musical uplift to the prayer. The Holy Rosary with the Schola of the Oxford Oratory and Meditations by J.H. Newman
  • Musical settings including plainsong and polyphonic conducti, tropes, and organa follow on fols. Codex Calixtinus
  • 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
  • He was helped by Peter, also from the school of music, and Father Peter, from the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, who travelled to Salzburg to research the sections of plainsong.
  • Most chanting is unaccompanied, often because no one is available with the required skill, especially to accompany plainsong.
  • His music tends not to be based on plainsong chants, where many of his predecessors would probably have used the chant melodies as the basis of the polyphonic compositions.
  • To them, the crack of the centurion's whip and the thud of the hammer on nails are distant, alien sounds - a disturbing echo of Holy Week long ago, of Gregorian plainsong, of ferias in Seville.
  • Portis's language is an archaic, biblically inflected 19th-century American English, free of contractions, a plainsong not averse to rhetorical filigree and curlicue – a perfect fit for the hyper-literate, word-drunk Coens. With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth
  • Significant plainsong hymns have a place, all treated with flowing simplicity.
  • 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.
  • They are alternatim settings of even-numbered verses, cycles of short polyphonic motets alternating with and freely based on the given plainsong Magnificat tone. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The Pope's decision against the inclusion of women in church choirs is likely to cause the Austrian village church to return to the plainsong of the mediaeval monks.
  • The logic - unassailable, really - of using a single typeface family takes us back to unison plainsong.
  • Her nuns, by their own admission, weren't very good at singing, with their plainsong and intoning more than a little out of tune!

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