Definitions
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- noun music A form of
monophonic liturgical chant employed in various Catholic and Orthodox liturgies
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- noun a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The text can be sung in English as well, in plainchant.
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If ICEL wanted to go even further to push plainchant and sacred music, it would issue the new texts into the Commons so that anyone could publish them and distribute good music, not just those who have done it during the great 40-year parenthesis from 1970 to 2010.
The "greedy cartel of guitar-strumming copyright hawks" 2009
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His sacred music is unabashedly, even fearlessly tonal, and his chiming harmonies serve as underpinning for gently swaying melodic lines that leave no doubt of his love for medieval plainchant.
The Best Composer You've Never Heard Of Terry Teachout 2012
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I'll speak on the topic of my book Sing Like a Catholic, and also I'll be talking about the role of plainchant in Catholic liturgy in general.
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The concert will begin with Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major, followed by Romantic-era Eug è ne Ysa ÿ e's Sonata No. 2 in A minor, which quotes the Partita as well as the Dies Irae plainchant from the Mass for the dead.
A Violinist on a Solo Mission Stuart Isacoff 2011
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The concert ended with "Four Strict Songs," a kind of non-mass of devotional-sounding sentences sung by a chorus with the directness of plainchant and the eloquence of a poet.
Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison 2011
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The Psalm, by way of contrast, will be straight plainchant in English, by Arlene Oost-Zinner, while the ordinary will be in Latin.
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The beginning of Mass also requires that life that comes from plainchant, and using the propers underscore the relationship between music and the Mass itself.
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It is a simple choral gradual, that is, sung propers for the choir for the Entrance, Psalm, Offertory, and Communion, all in English, all in plainchant.
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The first is Allegri's Miserere, a setting of Psalm 50/51 which mixes polyphony and plainchant.
chained_bear commented on the word plainchant
"He felt the ampulla in his cheek—undying mortal sin except by casuistry—and although he had long thought prayer in time of danger indecent, prayers sang in his mind, the long hypnotic cadences of plainchant imploring protection for his love."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 366
I've only ever seen this word as plainsong, as in the play "The Lion in Winter," not plainchant, but at least I could tell they mean the same thing. :)
February 9, 2008