plainsong

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Church music, plainsong music, large choirs — all of that stuff is extremely beautiful, and I wanted to try and get some of that in this record.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

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

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