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

The Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church has two, one a treatment of “While shepherds watched their flocks by night,” and the other of a plainsong melody.

From New York Times • May 25, 2015

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