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
Members of the choir will sing to plainsong a verse of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and then the organist will improvise the next verse.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2017
I think of him in the lineage of bardic recitation and plainsong.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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