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Occasionally motifs are inverted, reversed, metrically distorted, superimposed as plainchant. en.wikipedia.org

For several centuries, different plainchant styles existed concurrently. en.wikipedia.org

The boys performed 14 or 15 services a week and had 10 hours of rehearsals a week, learning plainchant and polyphony. en.wikipedia.org

The treatise also discusses singing technique, ornamentation of plainchant, and polyphony in the style of organum. en.wikipedia.org

The movements differ in their treatment of the source plainchant. en.wikipedia.org

The constant quaver texture might be a reference to the last "eleison" in the plainchant. en.wikipedia.org

Among the most significant are those depicting the clergy and peasantry; the former is a sort of plainchant, while the latter is a robust theme with astringent harmonies. en.wikipedia.org

The text of a clausula differs from that of the plainchant melody underneath it. en.wikipedia.org

The plainchant music, however, was written in neumes which are inherently ambiguous, so no definitive modern version exists. en.wikipedia.org

It consists of nineteen chapters; the first nine are devoted to notation, modes, and monophonic plainchant. en.wikipedia.org

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