| Urban March is magical, formed from simple humming, and Woman at the Door has the qualities of plainsong. |
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| Significant plainsong hymns have a place, all treated with flowing simplicity. |
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| The astonishing success of four women singing plainsong has created yet another mystery in the annals of record sales. |
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| In other words, the daily execution of a grand motet on ordinary days would have given place to plainsong on feast days. |
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| Her nuns, by their own admission, weren't very good at singing, with their plainsong and intoning more than a little out of tune! |
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| Monks in Tudor England subtly altered the words of Latin plainsong, transforming them into coded protest. |
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| This text was used, I believe, in all four twentieth-century coronations, restored to its medieval plainsong melody. |
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| At length, the soloist and the orchestra meet on the same spiritual plane, a process aided by the quotation of the plainsong Adoro te devote. |
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| If you have no stomach for plainsong and church polyphony, steer clear of this recording. |
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| It was a small positive organ that blended with the choir to accompany the plainsong. |
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| The piece is based on the old Dies Irae medieval plainsong chant. |
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| Thus was he able to perceive connections between such seemingly disparate aspects of music as plainsong, electronics, extended piano techniques and campanology. |
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| The compositions of this ensemble of cello, bass clarinet and church organ are greatly inspired by Gregorian chant and plainsong. |
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| In plainsong recitation of psalms, tenor refers to the reiterated note on which most of the syllables fall. |
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| It has been chanted in all eight modes of the plainsong and has been the subject of numerous other settings. |
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| During the half century after Guido's death, developments came more rapidly as the plainsong chant became the lower rather than the upper voice. |
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| This school of unison liturgical singing is called plainchant, plainsong, or Gregorian chant. |
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| The first cantors' Ars Antiqua gave way to other forms of music, but plainsong remained their main art form. |
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| His music tends not to be based on plainsong chants, where many of his predecessors would probably have used the chant melodies as the basis of the polyphonic compositions. |
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| The Pope's decision against the inclusion of women in church choirs is likely to cause the Austrian village church to return to the plainsong of the mediaeval monks. |
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| The contents show Byrd's mastery of a wide variety of keyboard forms, though liturgical compositions based on plainsong are not represented. |
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| The impressive plainsong melody to which the hymn was sung was used by composers of religious works from the 16th century onward, either in its original form or as the basis of a polyphonic composition. |
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| Both of these works also reflect Satie's fascination with gothic and medieval subjects, with their allusion to Gregorian plainsong, and mystical atmosphere. |
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| The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results. |
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