1) Chant 2) Church music 3) English country music group 4) English folk rock group 5) Gregorian chant 6) Plainchant
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1) Chant 2) Plainchant
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Plainsong (also plainchant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. Though the Eastern Orthodox churches and the Western Church did not split until long after the origin of plainsong, Byzantine chants are generally not classified as plainsong. Plainsong is monophonic, consisting of a single, unaccompanied me...
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(from the article `Canadian literature`) ...author Nancy Huston, who has lived much of her adult life in France, caused a considerable stir when her novel Cantique des plaines (1993), ...
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the Gregorian chant (q.v.) and, by extension, other similar religious chants. The word derives from the 13th-century Latin term cantus planus (`plain ... [17 related articles]
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[
n] - a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
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plainchant noun a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
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Traditional single-line chant melodies used for singing the texts of the Christian church. Plainsong was first adopted by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, and then by Pope Gregory in the 6th century, the latter being referred to as Gregorian chant. It is properly sung in unison, without harmony and with no definitely measured rhythms. Its groupings of...
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liturgical Catholic monophonic song. Also called Gregorian chant, plainchant.
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