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

He surrounds his loops of glimmering keyboard and guitar with cathedral-size reverberation, and he sings sustained melodies somewhere between plainsong and slow-motion Beach Boys.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

Indeed, plainsong developed gradually and separately all over Christian Europe according to local tastes and traditions.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall