plainsong

Example Sentences

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Like that wisecrack, Hobson’s style is colloquial throughout; he works in American plainsong even when summoning voices from beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2021

And at the appointed hour, just as their guidebook had promised, the transfiguring music of plainsong rose from the crypt below them, a few wide steps down from the main body of the church.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

I think of him in the lineage of bardic recitation and plainsong.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2016

He surrounds his loops of glimmering keyboard and guitar with cathedral-size reverberation, and he sings sustained melodies somewhere between plainsong and slow-motion Beach Boys.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

This chant, also called plainchant or plainsong, has by default often been described as ‘Gregorian’ chant, after Gregory the Great, who was Pope at the end of the sixth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall