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plainsong

[playn-sawng, -song] / ˈpleɪnˌsɔŋ, -ˌsɒŋ /


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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

The simple but meandering melodic lines of plainsong were to exert a considerable influence on his composing style as he matured.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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