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ˈplain·chant N no pl MUS

plainchant

gregorianischer Gesang

plainchant

Cantus planus m spec

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In the piano, sweet cascades of blue-orange chords, enclosing in their distant chimes the almost plainchant song of the violin and cello. en.wikipedia.org

Printing plainchant with movable type had been possible since the 1470s. en.wikipedia.org

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

The existence of quilisma in the musical notation indicates the influence of plainchant. en.wikipedia.org

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

The hymn settings are mostly in responsory format, i.e. a verse is sung in plainchant, the next in polyphony, and then the formula repeats. 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

Scholars are still debating how plainchant developed during the 5th through the 9th centuries, as information from this period is scarce. en.wikipedia.org

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

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