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Definition of the day : « plainsong »
- As in music : noun sounds that are pleasant, harmonized
- Florid music, or all church music that is not Plainsong, or its Lutheran equivalent the chorale-melody.
- Extract from : « Bach » by Charles Francis Abdy Williams
- Descant in music is the melodious accompaniment to a simple theme, the plainsong or ground.
- Extract from : « Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois » by George Chapman
- There was a chapel in the house, of a High Anglican kind, where vestments and incense were used, and plainsong sung.
- Extract from : « Hugh » by Arthur Christopher Benson
- He appears familiar with the plainsong, and has based a symphony and portions of a quartet on Gregorian modes.
- Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
- And Winchester, too, has all and more than all, the surprise of the plainsong; the better you know it the more you are impressed.
- Extract from : « England of My Heart--Spring » by Edward Hutton
- It is therefore of some interest to find that in 1548 the Master at Giggleswick had a knowledge of plainsong as well as grammar.
- Extract from : « A History of Giggleswick School » by Edward Allen Bell