plainsong
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Back and forth, a choir onstage chanted plainsong, answered by another more effusive choir behind the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
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
The worship continues with the proper liturgy at 7:30 p.m., a holy day that includes plainsong and music by John IV of Portugal and William Byrd.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2016
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
